Usage examples (4)

• Others were equally sure it was a four-membered ring fused to a five-membered ring, known as a beta lactam.
• OXE has an unstable chemical structure (a four-membered ring containing three carbons and one oxygen) that makes it prone to being split open.
• The double door frame projects pilaster-like, with a four-membered cornice above, from which rises an elliptical arch, with an elliptical cornice about a foot above.
• Here it is easy to see the chemical structure, a four-membered ß-lactam ring attached to a six-membered sulphur-containing ring -- derived most probably like the...