A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, w…
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a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs
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A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hy…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General 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, General chemistry.an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids an…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General 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, General 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, General chemistry.Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by ch…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General 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…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
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A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.A combination of acetic acid with glycerin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.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: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesive…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.a toxic colorless flammable liquid (CS2); used in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane and carbon tetrachloride and as a solvent fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, volatile, water-soluble, liquid, aldehyde.
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