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Definition of Dissymmetric
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissymmetric
Literary usage of Dissymmetric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry by Joseph Stewart Fruton (2002)
"In the first lecture he stated: We know in effect, on the one hand, that the
molecular structures of the two tartaric acids are dissymmetric, and on the ..."
2. Pasteur by Percy Mrs Frankland (1901)
"The intrinsic and fundamental difference between these two classes of bodies—the
symmetric and the dissymmetric—is perhaps most easily realised by placing ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... of a dissymmetric molecule with a dissymmetric environment must be
different.1 Provided that the dissymmetric discrimination is sufficiently large, ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"The structure, viz., the crystal, is then dissymmetric itself, but the materials
of which it is constructed arc not so. The proof of this consists in the ..."
5. Louis Pasteur-- his life and labours by René Vallery-Radot (1885)
"able to produce in the laboratory, by the ordinary processes of chemistry, a
dissymmetric molecule—in other words, a substance which, in a state of solution ..."
6. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"Never, he says, have you been able to produce in the laboratory, by the ordinary
processes of chemistry, a dissymmetric molecule; in other words, ..."
7. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1902)
"Alternating electromotive forces may be symmetric or dissymmetric. ... dissymmetric
alternating electromotive force waves are produced by particular types ..."
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