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Definition of Isologous

1. a. Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; -- said specifically of groups or series which differ by a constant difference; as, ethane, ethylene, and acetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series.

Definition of Isologous

1. Adjective. (chemistry) Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; said specifically of groups or series which differ by a constant difference. ¹

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Definition of Isologous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Isologous

1. Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; said specifically of groups or series which differ by a constant difference; as, ethane, ethylene, an acetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series. Origin: Iso- + Gr. Proportion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Isologous

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 (1867)
"(1122) Groups isologous with the Monobasic Alcohols and their Derivatives.—The progress of research into the products of the decomposition of organic ..."

2. A Manual of Chemistry, Descriptive and Theoretical by William Odling (1861)
"(14) isologous SERIES. — Carbon compounds may be arranged not only in homologous, but also in isologous series, the successive terms of each of which differ ..."

3. Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry by Elias Hudson Bartley (1898)
"A series of hydrocarbons differing by H, are known as an isologous series. In the vertical columns of the following table we have the homologous series ..."

4. Text-book of Medical Chemistry for Medical and Pharmaceutical Students and by Elias Hudson Bartley (1889)
"... rise to another homologous series, each member differing from the last mentioned by the constant quantity of H,, and known as the isologous series. ..."

5. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter (1899)
"This might be called grouping according to isologous series : THREE-MEMBERED HETEROCYCLIC SUBSTANCES. ..."

6. Principles of Chemistry, Founded on Modern Theories by Alfred Naquet, William Cortis, Thomas Stevenson (1868)
"This series of a new order, each term of which is an entire homologous series, has received the name isologous series ; it is founded on the characteristic ..."

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