Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The prefix thio-, when applied to a chemical, such as an ion, means that an oxygen atom in the compound has been replaced by a sulfur atom. This term is often used in organic chemistry. For example, the word ether refers to an oxygen-containing compound having the general chemical structure R-O-R', where R and R' are organic residues and O is an oxygen atom. Thioether refers to an analogous compound with the general structure R-S-R' where S is a sulfur atom covalently bonded to two organic residues. A chemical reaction involving the replacement of oxygen to sulfur is called thionation or thiation.Thio- can be prefixed with di- and tri- in chemical nomenclature.The word derives from Greek θεῖον theîon = \"sulfur\" (which occurs in Greek epic poetry as θέ(ϝ)ειον théweion and may come from the same root as Latin fumus (Indo-European dh-w) and may have originally meant \"fumigation substance\".)"@en }
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- Thio- abstract "The prefix thio-, when applied to a chemical, such as an ion, means that an oxygen atom in the compound has been replaced by a sulfur atom. This term is often used in organic chemistry. For example, the word ether refers to an oxygen-containing compound having the general chemical structure R-O-R', where R and R' are organic residues and O is an oxygen atom. Thioether refers to an analogous compound with the general structure R-S-R' where S is a sulfur atom covalently bonded to two organic residues. A chemical reaction involving the replacement of oxygen to sulfur is called thionation or thiation.Thio- can be prefixed with di- and tri- in chemical nomenclature.The word derives from Greek θεῖον theîon = \"sulfur\" (which occurs in Greek epic poetry as θέ(ϝ)ειον théweion and may come from the same root as Latin fumus (Indo-European dh-w) and may have originally meant \"fumigation substance\".)".