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heteroatoms

heteroatoms is the plural of heteroatom.

Meaning of heteroatom

Noun

heteroatom (plural heteroatoms)

  1. Any atom which is not carbon or hydrogen.
  2. Any atom in a heterocyclic ring (or other structure normally built of carbon atoms) that is not a carbon atom.

Questions about heteroatoms

What is heteroatoms the plural of?
Heteroatoms is the plural of heteroatom.

Words near heteroatoms in the dictionary

  1. heteroassociations
  2. heteroassociative
  3. heteroassociativity
  4. heteroatom
  5. heteroatomic
  6. heteroatoms
  7. heteroauxin
  8. heteroauxins
  9. heteroazeotrope
  10. heteroazeotropes
  11. heteroazeotropic

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