stereoregularity

[ ster-ee-oh-reg-yuh-lar-i-tee, steer- ]

nounChemistry.
  1. (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule.

Origin of stereoregularity

1
1955–60; stereo- + regularity

Words Nearby stereoregularity

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