Definition of Kekule

1. Noun. German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kekule

Kegel exercises
Kegels
Kehr's sign
Keira
Keiran
Keirseyan
Keisha
Keith
Keith's bundle
Keith's node
Keith Rupert Murdoch
Keith and Flack node
Keith number
Keith numbers
Kekchi
Kekule (current term)
Kekule formula
Kekulé formula
Kelabit
Kelabits
Kelantan
Kelantanese
Kell
Kell blood group
Keller
Keller-Madlener operation
Keller bunionectomy
Kelley
Kelli
Kellie

Literary usage of Kekule

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and by Joseph S. Fruton (1990)
"Many years later, Kekule recalled that in 1851 Liebig said to him: "Go to Paris, ... 60 Indeed, it was in Paris, during 1851-1852, that Kekule met Charles ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1890)
"THE Kekule ANNIVERSARY. The celebration by the Berlin Chemical Society, of the twenty- fifth anniversary of the announcement of the benzol theory and the ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1856)
"... have published in the Introduction to Mr. Davidson's Monograph already referred to. II. " On a new Series of Sulphuretted Acids." By Dr. AUGUST Kekule. ..."

4. A History of Chemistry from Earliest Times to the Present Day: Being Also an by Ernst von Meyer (1898)
"The more general application of this by Kekule"2 was preceded by Williamson's idea that certain organic compounds might be derived from multiplied or ..."

5. The Chemistry of the Diazo-compounds by John Cannell Cain (1908)
"Constitution of diazo-compounds according to Kekule'. —In 18^6 Kekule" advanced the view that diazo-compounds contained the group . ..."

6. A History of Chemistry by Forris Jewett Moore (1918)
"... service to chemistry culminated in the work of Williamson, Gerhardt and Kekule. This special history of modern organic chemistry is far too important to ..."

7. The Study of Chemical Composition: An Account of Its Method and Historical by Ida Freund (1904)
"(Kekule, "Ueber die sogenannten gepaarten Verbindungen und die Theorie der ... In the above, Kekule classifies not only radicles but also elements according ..."

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