Well attestedNamed from the place
israelane
noun · first attested 1982
A molecule named for a flag: the carbon skeleton draws a Star of David.
A hypothetical isomer of [12]prismane whose carbon skeleton forms a six-pointed star.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1982
- Part of speech
- noun
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israelane
The Israeli chemist David Ginsburg proposed israelane along with helvetane in 1982 as a pair of flag-shaped hydrocarbons, in an article meant humorously. Neither compound has been made, and both are calculated to be enormously strained. Computational studies in the following years found helvetane the more stable of the two by a wide margin, which is an unusual afterlife for a joke.
Israel
All 6 entries 5 more words from Israel
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