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."
Can you pronounce this word?
ReplyDeleteI "think" so...but since I've only read it and not heard it spoken, I can't say for sure.
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