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Definition of Metamers
1. metamer [n] - See also: metamer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metamers
Literary usage of Metamers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"dimorphic branches has two kinds of vegetative metamers, addition to the various
kinds of floral or reproductive metamers. In the cotton plant, for example, ..."
2. The Elementary Principles of Chemistry by Abram Van Eps Young (1900)
"Of these there are two varieties—the polymers and the metamers. The polymers are
substances which have the same percentage composition, but differ in ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"In some metamers I have noted 36 mm. as the range, and this means that for an
... In Umbrina it can be separated for 10 metamers. Without giving any undue ..."
4. A Text-book of Experimental Chemistry: (with Descriptive Notes) for Students by Edwin Lee (1908)
"Isomers are of two kinds: (1) If the isomers have the same molecular weight they
are known as metamers, as ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH) and methyl.oxide ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"Thus there are no fewer than nine metamers of valerate of amyl. The difference
between metamers of this kind is very neatly defined by reactions, ..."
6. Law and Theory in Chemistry: A Companion Book for Students by Douglas Carnegie (1894)
"The latter class is further subdivided into (a') bodies of the same type or
isomers in the restricted sense, and ((3') bodies of different types or metamers ..."
7. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"I have, therefore, measured and noted the arrangement of the metamers in a great
many fishes. I have made no reference to the embryological conditions. ..."
8. Theoretical and Physical Chemistry by Samuel Lawrence Bigelow (1912)
"metamers. Isomers the formula weights of which are the same are called metamers
... The existence of metamers excludes the possibility of imagining atoms as ..."
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