Used chiefly as a relational adjective in chemistry.
Traducciones
à chaîne ouverteEn chimie, se dit d’un composé dont la structure n’est pas cyclique. Hexane is an open-chain hydrocarbon.
L’hexane est un hydrocarbure à chaîne ouverte.
Definiciones
Having a non-cyclic chain structure; especially of a chemical compound whose atoms are arranged in an open, acyclic chain rather than in a ring. Hexane is an open-chain hydrocarbon.