Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bamford-stevens reaction

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English

Syllables: bam-ford-steven-s re-ac-tion
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chemical reaction in which treatment of tosylhydrazones with strong base gives alkenes.

Etymology

Named after British chemist William Randall Bamford and Scottish chemist Thomas Stevens Stevens.

Inflected Forms

Bamford-Stevens reactions (plural)

Questions

What does bamford-stevens reaction mean?: A chemical reaction in which treatment of tosylhydrazones with strong base gives alkenes.
Where does bamford-stevens reaction come from?: Named after British chemist William Randall Bamford and Scottish chemist Thomas Stevens Stevens.

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