Definition of radicals Radicals
/ɹæˈdʌkʌlz/ - [ratdukulz] -
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What does radicals mean?
Wiktionary 
- radicals (Noun)
Plural of radical.
Electrical DictionaryThe Standard Electrical Dictionary 💡
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radicals
A portion of a molecule, possessing a free bond and hence free to combine directly. A radical never can exist alone, but is only hypothetical. An atom is a simple radical, an unsaturated group of atoms is a compound radical.Radiometer. An instrument consisting of four vanes poised on an axis so as to be free to rotate, and contained in a sealed glass vessel almost perfectly exhausted. The vanes of mica are blackened on one side.On exposure to light or a source of heat (ether waves) the vanes rotate. The rotation is due to the beating back and forth of air molecules from the surface of the vanes to the inner surface of the glass globe.
Part of speech
🔤- radicals, noun, plural of radical.
