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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Example Sentences

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

The mirror images of the cis isomer form a pair of optical isomers, which have identical behavior except when reacting with other enantiomers.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Transition metal complexes often exist as geometric isomers, in which the same atoms are connected through the same types of bonds but with differences in their orientation in space.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

It was found, however, that condensation products from the three isomers were distinguishable from one another neither in physical nor in tannoid properties.

From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg