position isomer

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noun Chemistry.

any of two or more isomers that differ only in the position occupied by a substituent.

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Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
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You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.
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If the ball goes off the screen, it teleports back to the starting position.
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In a 2009 interview, Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks held that the Church “does not have a position” on that point.
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And by the time an airplane was in the water, its exact position would be known.
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In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Polavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.
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Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.
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It is only necessary to have a zinc, or a galvanized tray on which to stand the glass in an inverted position.
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The case may be kept in a light position, and when once under way it will rarely need any additional water.
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