Definition of Structural formula

1. Noun. An expanded molecular formula showing the arrangement of atoms within the molecule.

Generic synonyms: Molecular Formula

Definition of Structural formula

1. Noun. (chemistry) Any of various diagrammatic representations of the structure of a molecule that shows how its atoms are linked to each other, with what type of bonds, and the presence of any charges ¹

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Literary usage of Structural formula

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

1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"... NEW structural formula FOR PROTOPLASM. The facts as they appear to me, seem in mosaic to offer the following tentative formula for the living substance. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Von Baeyer has proposed a slightly different structural formula for benzene, ... It is customary, at the present time, to express the structural formula of ..."

3. Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry by Alexander Smith (1906)
"Now the modes of action of a single substance are often rather various, and one and the same structural formula cannot represent all of these at once. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"... in accordance with their improved nomenclature of the parts, the structural formula of this group ..."

5. Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry by Alexander Smith (1906)
"Now the modes of action of a single substance are often rather various, and one and the same structural formula cannot represent all of these at once. ..."

6. Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry by Alexander Smith (1907)
"Now the modes of action of a single substance are often rather various, and one and the same structural formula cannot represent all of these at once. ..."

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