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selenophiles

selenophiles is the plural of selenophile.

Meaning of selenophile

Noun

selenophile (plural selenophiles)

  1. (informal) One who is fond of or interested in the Moon.
    • A selenophile, that's me. Are you a selenophile or a heliophile? A lunar lover or a solar lover?2008 September 2, Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), →ISBN, page 303
  2. Something which tends to absorb selenium.
    • Accordingly, it seemed probable that by having X in Scheme 1 as SeR, then a selenophile such as copper(1) would promote the C-C bond formation as in Scheme 2 to yield the required systems.1991 January 1, Craig J. Hawker, Athena Philippides, Alan R. Battersby, “Selenomethylpyrroles: Their Use for Synthesis of Dipyrrylmethanes (Dipyrrins), Tripyranes and Bilanes”, in Journal of the...

Questions about selenophiles

What is selenophiles the plural of?
Selenophiles is the plural of selenophile.

Words near selenophiles in the dictionary

  1. selenoperoxidase
  2. selenoperoxidases
  3. selenophene
  4. selenophenes
  5. selenophile
  6. selenophiles
  7. selenophilia
  8. selenophilic
  9. selenophobia
  10. selenophorine
  11. selenophorines

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