Re: 'Meta` question
From: Bob (bbruner_at_uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: 09/04/04
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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:43:21 -0700
On 3 Sep 2004 16:22:25 -0700, ilsdesign@netscape.net (pragmatist)
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>Recently came across reference to the substance name 'metaformaldehyde`.
>Understand the 'paraformaldehyde` designation where (H2CO-)
>groups line up next to each-other, but what would be the 'meta` configuration?
>What would the groups be 'meta` to?
Don't try to read any meaning into the prefix here.
metaformaldehyde is a cyclic trimer of formaldehyde,
-CH2-O-CH2-O-CH2-O- (connect the ends)
bob
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