isostere
noun
iso·stere
ˈī-sə-ˌsti(ə)r
variants
also isoster
: one of two or more substances (as carbon monoxide and molecular nitrogen) that exhibit similarity of some properties as a result of having the same number of total or valence electrons in the same arrangement and that consist of different atoms and not necessarily the same number of atoms
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