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Molecular

adjective

Relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules. "Molecular oxygen" , "Molecular weight is the sum of all the atoms in a molecule"

Relating to simple or elementary organization. Antonym: molar.

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"Molecular" Quotes from Famous Books

... makes much of the three cosmic laws. Our earth, by a form of self-love called molecular attraction, ceases to be scattered dust, and takes on the shape of a rich and beautiful planet. But self-loved, our earth is also sun-loved, and drawn by invisible bands it is swept forward out of winter into summer. Then enters in a third principle, by which ...

— A Man's Value to Society - Studies in Self Culture and Character • Newell Dwight Hillis

... popular exposition, or the undisciplined imagination of the investigator himself, atoms have figured in the history of thought as round corpuscles of a grayish hue scurrying hither and thither, and armed with special appliances wherewith to lock in molecular embrace. Although this is nonsense, we need not on that account conclude that there are no atoms. There are atoms in precisely the sense intended by scientific law, in that the formulas computed with the aid of this concept are true of certain natural processes. ...

— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

... lived unthinkable thousands of years ago. The very stones of their temples have crumbled and been decomposed, but the precious metal has been formed into nuggets, according to the natural laws of molecular attraction, and under the impulse of gravity and in obedience to the ...

— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann

... all this, science can only say that a molecular change must be going on in the radium, to correspond to the heat it gives out. What that change may be is still a complete mystery. It is a mystery which we find alike in those minute specimens of the rarest of substances under our microscopes, in the sun, and in the vast nebulous masses in ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... the structural differences which are said to exist in his brain do not exist at all, and you teach that all functions, intellectual, moral, and others, are the expression or the result, in the long run, of structures, and of the molecular forces which they exert." It is quite true that I ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

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