Meaning of pseudoradical | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
2. The intersection of the set of nonzero prime ideals of a ring.
3. An atom or group within a molecule which behaves like a free radical due to high valence.

Examples

“He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence.”

“As suggested by Weinmayr in this example, the reaction proceeds by a different mechanism, not with the formation of free radicals but rather with separation of the C — Hg bond, thus producing pseudoradicals which do not diffuse into the reaction medium.”

“These pseudoradicals are not directly chain carriers in the reduction of peroxydisulfate, but they can further build up oxygen radical ions.”

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