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isomers

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  1. In chemistry, molecules that contain exactly the same numbers of the same kinds of atoms, but in which the atoms have different structural arrangements.


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The new workflow can also identify isomers, which are molecules with the same chemical formula but different atomic arrangements.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2024

"The different chemical forms are known as isomers, and this is the first time that reactions between them have been used to develop piezoresistors," Dr Fallon said.

From Science Daily Oct. 3, 2023

Name the other isomers that contain a five-carbon chain with three methyl substituents.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

The complex does not have any geometric isomers, but the mirror image is nonsuperimposable, so it has an optical isomer.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Many of the chemicals in food could exist in either of two forms, or isomers; they were chemically alike, but differently crystallized.

From Badge of Infamy by Lester Del Rey

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