Sentence examples for unusual compound from inspiring English sources

The major ingredient, called civet, or civetone, is an unusual compound, with 17 carbon atoms that form a ring.

"It was an unusual compound in terms of size and the privacy of it being isolated from anything connected to the world.

The researchers investigated the reaction of the tertiary alkyl oxonium salt 1,4,7-trimethyloxatriquinane with azide anions (N3–) and concluded that the tertiary carbon centres in that unusual compound succumb to SN2 attack.

In the 1960s the British chemist John W. Cornforth showed that omitting a necessary reductant in the enzyme system that promotes the formation of squalene causes an unusual compound containing a three-membered ring, called presqualene pyrophosphate, to accumulate.

Phoebichnus trochoides Bromley and Asgaard, is a large and unusual compound, deep-tier trace fossil described from the Jurassic of Jameson Land, Greenland and is of restricted occurrence in a few other Mesozoic sequences.

In order both to elucidate the biosynthesis of this unusual compound and to develop tools to manipulate its structure, we have identified the MmA biosynthetic genes in Streptomyces ghanaensis (ATCC14672).

But scientists say there is still much that is unknown about the unusual compounds, sometimes referred to as "flammable ice," and that the commercial production of gas from them is still far-off.

Scientists say unusual compounds and gene sequences in some marine creatures and plants could lead to anything from much-needed new antibiotics to cancer drugs.

It is believed that unusual compounds and gene sequences in some marine creatures and plants could lead to anything from much-needed new antibiotics to cancer drugs.

Thorium has been shown to activate carbon hydrogen bonds, forming unusual compounds.

Lacking any protective shell or means of escape, sponges have evolved to synthesize a variety of unusual compounds.