nonamern.
/ˈnɒnəmə/, U.S. /ˈnɑnəmər/, /ˈnoʊnəmər/ Chemistry and Biochemistry.
A compound whose molecule is formed from nine monomers; a molecule of such a compound.
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nonamer1946
1946 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 68 359/1 The heptamer, octamer and nonamer..were isolated by fractionating high-boiling still-pot residues.
1987 Jrnl. Chem. Physics 86 3667 The solvent effect on the structure and dynamics of a polymer is determined by solving the generalized Langevin equation..for a nonamer in a solvent.
2001 Jrnl. Sci. Food & Agric. 81 1306 Antioxidant activity of six fractions of cranberry phenolic compounds was determined... Fraction 5 contained trimers through heptamers, whereas fraction 6 contained pentamers through nonamers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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