bisadduct etymology

English word bisadduct comes from English adduct, English bis-

Detailed word origin of bisadduct

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
adduct English (eng) (transitive, physiology) To draw towards a center or a middle line. (chemistry) The product of an addition reaction.
bis- English (eng) (chemistry, obsolete) A variant of tri- used to indicate that the component that does not take the prefix occurs twice in the compound: a bisoxide is of the form B2O. (mathematics, chemistry) A variant of di-, used for substitutions of two complex rather than simple units.. An occasional variant of bi- prefixed to roots beginning with a vowel, as in bisalternate.
bisadduct English (eng) (chemistry) The product of two simultaneous addition reactions on the same molecule.

Words with the same origin as bisadduct

Descendants of bis-
bisacridine bisacrylamide bisallene bisallylic bisammonium bisanthrapyrazole bisarylated bisazene bisdigitoxoside biselectrophilic bisenolate bishydroxamic bisintercalating bisintercalator bisligand bismetallated bisoxazoline bisphenol bisphosphate bisphosphine bisporphyrin bisthiourea bisurea cyclobisintercalator