Lonsdale

/ lŏnz′dāl′ /

1. Irish physicist noted for using x-ray analysis to show that the carbon atoms in the benzene ring are arranged hexagonally and are in the same plane (1929).

Example Sentences

On the surface, Gordon Lonsdale was the director of several successful British companies.

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The Cohens and Lonsdale all had active social lives and appeared to be immensely normal.

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I had been at the Lonsdale ranch about three or four months when I received your letter asking me to return home.

From Project Gutenberg

When I first went to work on the Lonsdale ranch, the boss put me to cutting oak wood.

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Fourteen of these chairs, with the sofa, are in this room; the other twelve were purchased by the Earl of Lonsdale.

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The word Lune was anciently written Lone, and the hundred is still named Lonsdale.

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Mr. Lonsdale adds, "I have seen fairies several times in the New Forest, but never so clearly as this."

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