Pseudoradical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudoradical is a noun meaning One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
Meaning
One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
More Meanings
- (mathematics) The intersection of the set of nonzero prime ideals of a ring.
- (chemistry) An atom or group within a molecule which behaves like a free radical due to high valence.
- Claiming or appearing to be politically radical, but not actually so.
Example Sentences
He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence.
These pseudoradicals are not directly chain carriers in the reduction of peroxydisulfate, but they can further build up oxygen radical ions.
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.
Word Forms
- pseudoradicals
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include radical, counterradical, radicalist, ultraradical, pseudofeminist, radicalizer.
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