Word.ws English Dictionary

alpha carbons

alpha carbons is the plural of alpha carbon.

Meaning of alpha carbon

Noun

alpha carbon (plural alpha carbons)

  1. The first carbon atom of an aliphatic chain that is attached to a functional group

Questions about alpha carbons

What is alpha carbons the plural of?
Alpha carbons is the plural of alpha carbon.

Words near alpha carbons in the dictionary

  1. alpha blockers
  2. Alpha Boötis
  3. alpha brass
  4. alpha brasses
  5. alpha carbon
  6. alpha carbons
  7. Alpha Carinae
  8. Alpha Cassiopeiae
  9. alpha cell
  10. alpha cells
  11. Alpha Cen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: alpha carbons (page history and authors); alpha carbon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “alpha carbons.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/alpha_carbons. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.