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Synthetic vs Hafnon - What's the difference?

synthetic | hafnon |

As nouns the difference between synthetic and hafnon

is that synthetic is a synthetic compound while hafnon is (mineral) a mineral of hafnium silicate ore, having the chemical formula hfsio4, produced synthetically by substituting hafnium for the zirconium in zircon.

As an adjective synthetic

is of, or relating to synthesis.

synthetic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to synthesis.
  • (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
  • Artificial, not genuine.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.

    • Derived terms

    * nucleosynthetic * syntheticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A synthetic compound.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 14, author=Elsa Brenner, title=Art House to Get a Campus, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said. }}

    hafnon

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (mineral) A mineral of hafnium silicate ore, having the chemical formula HfSiO4, produced synthetically by substituting hafnium for the zirconium in zircon.