Protyle

Quick meaning: Protyle is a noun meaning (physical chemistry, historical) A hypothetical base substance from which all chemical elements were believed to have been made; subatomic particles.

Meaning

(physical chemistry, historical) A hypothetical base substance from which all chemical elements were believed to have been made; subatomic particles.

Example Sentences

Dumas wondered whether the fundamental building blocks of atoms might be some smaller division of the hydrogen atom: a half, say, or a quarter. This basic substance became known as ‘protyle’.

Two principles are postulated, according to which the elements have probably been evolved: (1) the ontogenic principle, involving the formation of the primary members of the different groups by direct condensation of protyl; (2) the phytogenetic principle, by which the higher members of the groups are developed from the lower by a process of integration.

Word Forms

• protyles
• prothyl
• prothyle
• protyl

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include protyl, element, basyle, protochemistry, protomolecule, protide.

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