Definition of "stereo-chemistry" []

• Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms. (noun)

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• "He may be regarded as the founder of modern stereo-chemistry; and his discovery that living organisms are the cause of fermentation is the basis of the whole modern germ - theory of disease and of the antiseptic method of treatment."
• "This view can also be harmonized more easily with the facts of stereo-chemistry."
• "He may be regarded as the founder of modern stereo-chemistry; and his discovery that living organisms are the cause of fermentation is the basis of the whole modern germ-theory of disease and of the antiseptic method of treatment."