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Noun Concept
Categories: Senescence, Biological processes, Environmental chemistry, Pages that use a deprecated format of the chem tags, Free radicals
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free radical  radical  Chemical radical  chlorine radical  free-radical
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An atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule WordNet 3.0
English:
chemistry
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An atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron. Wikipedia
Atomic or molecular species with unpaired electrons on an otherwise open shell configuration. Wikipedia Disambiguation
An atom, molecule, or ion with unpaired valence electron Wikipedia Disambiguation
Atom, molecule, or ion that has an unpaired valence electron; typically highly reactive Wikidata
A molecule, ion or atom that has one or more unpaired electrons, and which is generally highly reactive (and therefore often occurs only as a transient species). Wiktionary
Molecule, ion, or atom with an unpaired electron. Wiktionary (translation)
A free radical. Wiktionary
Organic chemistry: free radical. Wiktionary (translation)
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In the body free radicals are high-energy particles that ricochet wildly and damage cells WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
atom
intermediate
reaction intermediate
molecular entity
HAS PART
unpaired electron
HAS KIND
carbene
carbyne
semiquinone
radical ion
carbene analog
+6 relations
HAS INSTANCE
methyl
methylene group
nitric oxide
cyano radical
aryl radical
+13 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
group
substituent
moiety
HAS QUALITY
reactivity
PARTICIPANT IN
free-radical reaction
USED BY
radical substitution
free-radical addition
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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free radical, radical
Wikipedia
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radical (chemistry)
Wikidata
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radical
Wiktionary
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free radical, radical
Wikipedia Redirections
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Chemical radical, chlorine radical, free-radical, free radical, free radicals, One-electron reductant, organic radical, oxygen free radicals, oxygen radical, oxygen radicals, persistent radical, Radical (Chemistry), radical chemistry, radical reaction, radical reactions, single-electron transfer, single electron transfer, Stable radical, termination (chemistry)
Wikidata Alias
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free radical, free radicals

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