molecular
Americanadjective
adjective
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of or relating to molecules
molecular hydrogen
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logic (of a sentence, formula, etc) capable of analysis into atomic formulae of the appropriate kind
Other Word Forms
- molecularity noun
- molecularly adverb
- multimolecular adjective
- nonmolecular adjective
- submolecular adjective
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How well a cell functions depends not only on what molecular tools it contains, but also on how those tools are arranged.
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Instead of relying only on traditional plant chemistry, they appear to reuse molecular tools commonly seen in microbes to build defensive chemicals.
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Researchers plan to focus next on identifying the molecular processes behind these disruptions.
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This tendency toward disorder also applies at the molecular scale and is described by a property known as entropy.
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Traditionally, scientists describe these structures using the Landau-de Gennes theory, a mathematical framework that explains how molecular order collapses inside defect cores, where orientation no longer has a clear definition.
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