Definition of Pyran

1. Noun. (chemistry) Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C5H6O. ¹

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Definition of Pyran

1. a chemical compound [n -S] : PYRANOID [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyran

pyramiding
pyramidion
pyramidism
pyramidlike
pyramidoid
pyramidoids
pyramidological
pyramidologist
pyramidologists
pyramidology
pyramids
pyramis
pyramises
pyramoid
pyramoids
pyran (current term)
pyranine
pyranines
pyranoglucoside
pyranoid
pyranometer
pyranometers
pyranometric
pyranonaphthoquinone
pyranone
pyranones
pyranopterin
pyranopterins
pyranose
pyranoses

Literary usage of Pyran

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)
"That a change in molecular configuration must accompany rupture of the pyran ring was inferred from the absence of thermochromism in the sterically blocked ..."

2. A German-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1917)
"... menthane; pyran, pyran; Urethan, urethan. An., abbrev. (Anmerkung) note, remark. analog, a. analogous. Analogon, n. analog. Analysator, m. ..."

3. Descriptive Geometry by Gardner Chace Anthony, George Francis Ashley (1909)
"-Since a pyran bounded by planes, the problem into determining the line of ii tween two planes ... Determine the l the edges of the given pyran given plane. ..."

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