Usually means: Unstable molecule with unpaired electron.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. free radical: Merriam-Webster
  2. free radical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. free radical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. free radical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. free radical: Vocabulary.com
  6. free-radical: Wordnik
  7. free radical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. free radical: Wiktionary
  9. free radical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. free radical: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. free radical: Dictionary.com
  12. Free Radical (magazine), Free-radical, Free radical (disambiguation), Free radical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. free radical: Rhymezone
  14. free radical: FreeDictionary.org
  15. free radical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. free radical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. free radical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. free radical: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. free radical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. free radical: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. free radical: Natural Health glossary
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  6. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  7. free radical: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  9. free radical: Medical dictionary
  10. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Free Radical: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Free Radical: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Liquid Crystal (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (free radical)

noun:  (chemistry, physics) A molecule, ion or atom that has one or more unpaired electrons, and which is generally highly reactive (and therefore often occurs only as a transient species).

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