ring-shaped
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The researchers studied 3-fluoropyridine, a small ring-shaped molecule containing both nitrogen and fluorine atoms.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The company opened a sprawling ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and employs roughly 166,000 workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
These include 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to build proteins and all four of the ring-shaped molecules that make up DNA - adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025
Some placentas have evolved to be disklike, some are leaf-shaped, some ring-shaped, heart-shaped; some are ridged, branched, labyrinthine, or weblike.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
This ancient lifeway survives today, according to this theory, in the ring-shaped compounds of the Yanomamo.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
