a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.
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Butyrin
A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.
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any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.any organic compound containing the group -CONH2
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.organic compound formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement.; "A configurational ste…
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A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do; "visual aids in teaching"; "his job was to gi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do; "visual aids in teaching"; "his job was to gi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: butyrate, glycerin, contained, small, quantity.
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