My new bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is Stereoisomerism (noun): is a form of isomerism* in which molecules have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded atoms. [*isomerism, the existence of molecules that have the same numbers of the same kinds of atoms (and hence the same formula) but differ in chemical and physical properties.]
Still from Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy: "And mind you, my angel, the Cambridge man is no mean competitor; on the contrary, he's damned good, I can beat him on the colloids, but he's dead nuts on stereoisomerism, which is very fashionable at present."
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is Stereoisomerism (noun): is a form of isomerism* in which molecules have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded atoms. [*isomerism, the existence of molecules that have the same numbers of the same kinds of atoms (and hence the same formula) but differ in chemical and physical properties.]
Still from Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy: "And mind you, my angel, the Cambridge man is no mean competitor; on the contrary, he's damned good, I can beat him on the colloids, but he's dead nuts on stereoisomerism, which is very fashionable at present."
2 comments:
Can you pronounce this word?
I "think" so...but since I've only read it and not heard it spoken, I can't say for sure.
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