Definition of Radicals

1. Noun. (plural of radical) ¹

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Definition of Radicals

1. radical [n] - See also: radical

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radicals

radicalising
radicalism
radicalisms
radicalities
radicality
radicalizable
radicalization
radicalizations
radicalize
radicalized
radicalizes
radicalizing
radically
radicalness
radicalnesses
radicals (current term)
radicand
radicands
radicant
radicate
radicated
radicates
radicating
radication
radications
radicchio
radicchios
radicel
radicels
radices

Literary usage of Radicals

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

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"These rates do not necessarily coincide, since the latter depends on the fate of alkyl radicals subsequent to homolysis. If alkyl radicals are completely ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"But the problem of solution by radicals, instead of being the sole object of the ... Returning to the question of solution by radicals, it will be readily ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"If two or more of the atoms or radicals united to the carbon atom are similar ... A carbon atom combined with four different atoms or compound radicals may ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1869)
"The radicals held 1 seat, attacked the other. The Tories gained a seat (ut supra). Tory majority, 528. 1 DEVON (South).—Lord Amberley attacked 1 se»t. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If two or more of the atoms or radicals united to the carbon atom are similar ... A carbon atom combined with four different atoms or compound radicals may ..."

6. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"NHX H + O = C0 Nitroso-amines containing acid radicals, eg like NO W0' give on reduction no corresponding hydrazines, but the amides are regenerated : cfio ..."

7. Notes on Military Explosives by Erasmus Morgan Weaver (1912)
"radicals. 65. It has been stated that oxygen may be considered as existing in combination with hydrogen in chemical substances in the proportion of one atom ..."

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