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Definition of Cholesteric
1. a. Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.
Definition of Cholesteric
1. Adjective. (physics) Of or relating to the chiral nematic phase of some liquid crystals in which the molecules are arranged in parallel planes with adjacent planes rotated slightly ¹
2. Noun. Any compound that forms such a liquid crystal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cholesteric
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cholesteric
Literary usage of Cholesteric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"Long ng of cholesterin with nitric acid converts it first into a »ous mass and
then decomposes it, producing, amongst other cholesteric acid (HO ..."
2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1859)
"... on cooling and from which a yellow resin may be extracted. This latter does
not yield camphor by distillation. Oxygen-nucleus C"H100*. cholesteric Acid. ..."
3. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"... and they have found that a new acid is thus generated, to which thuy have
given the name of cholesteric acid. It forms compounds with the alkalies, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry by Andrew Ure (1828)
"ACID (cholesteric). When we. treat with nitric acid the fat matter of the human
biliary calculi, which M. Chevreul proposed to call ..."
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