pseudoradical

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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