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ached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

In an isolated manner.

The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. Milman.

One who, or that which, isolates.

ant difference; as, ethane, ethylene, an acetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series.

A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.

(Chem.) = Isomer.

proportion by weight, but with different molecular weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric (polymeric) with each other in this sense. See Polymeric. (b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but which a different structure or arr…

An isomer. [R.]

The state, quality, or relation, of two or more isomeric substances. Physical isomerism (Chem.), the condition or relation of certain (metameric) substances, which, while chemically identical (in that they have the same composition, the same molecular weights, and the same ultimate constitution), are yet physically dif…

Isomorphism between substances that are isomeric.

ength and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization. Isometric lines (Thermodynamics), lines representing in a diagram the relations of pressure and temperature in a gas, when the volume remains constant. -- Isometrical perspective. See under Perspective. -- Isometrical projection…

A substance which is similar to another in crystalline form and composition.

Isomorphous.

similar composition, as between the sulphates of barium (BaSO4) and strontium (SrSO4). It is sometimes extended to include similarity of form between substances of unlike composition, which is more properly called homoeomorphism.

Having the quality of isomorphism.

A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.

Having, or indicating, an equal amount of cloudiness for a given period; as, isonephelic regions; an isonephelic line.

A crystalline, nitrogenous base, C10H14N2, isomeric with nicotine.