pseudoradical

English edit

pseudoradical (plural pseudoradicals)

One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
- 2007 September 9, Karen Durbin, “Breaking Through”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence.
(mathematics) The intersection of the set of nonzero prime ideals of a ring.
(chemistry) An atom or group within a molecule which behaves like a free radical due to high valence.
- 1971, Ernest I. Becker, Minoru Tsutsui, Organometallic Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
  As suggested by Weinmayr in this example, the reaction proceeds by a different mechanism, not with the formation of free radicals but rather with separation of the C — Hg bond, thus producing pseudoradicals which do not diffuse into the reaction medium.
- 2002, Willy J. Masschelein, Rip G. Rice, Ultraviolet Light in Water and Wastewater Sanitation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 53:
  These pseudoradicals are not directly chain carriers in the reduction of peroxydisulfate, but they can further build up oxygen radical ions.

pseudoradical (comparative more pseudoradical, superlative most pseudoradical)