Lexic.us

2. Noun. Any of various derivatives of benzaldehyde. ¹

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Definition of Benzaldehyde

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Benzaldehyde

1. C6H5CHO;an aldehyde produced artificially or obtained from oil of bitter almond, containing not less than 80% of benzaldehyde; a flavoring agent used in orally administered medicines. Synonym: benzoic aldehyde. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Benzaldehyde

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"Glucose hyde cyanic acid The unpurified oil of bitter almonds consists largely of benzaldehyde, with a small amount of the poisonous hydrocyanic acid. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"A method has been described for purifying benzaldehyde by dissolving it in ... With pyrogallol benzaldehyde forms dye- stuffs of the triphenylmethane series ..."

3. A Text-book of organic chemistry by Arnold Frederick Holleman (1908)
"The oxidation of benzaldehyde in the air must therefore be considered to take place thus : C.HS-CHO + o, = C.HS-CO-O-OH ; O.HJ-CO-O-OH + C,H6-CHO = 2C ..."

4. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"benzaldehyde is a colourless, highly refractive liquid with a ... On heating, benzaldehyde burns with a very smoky flame, and leaves no residue on ignition. ..."

5. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"benzaldehyde. Estimation. Volumetric Method.—Dodge states1 that benzaldehyde can be estimated by the following modification of Ripper's method. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"benzaldehyde is a colourless, strongly refractive liquid with a pleasant ... benzaldehyde readily undergoes oxidation ; thus it absorbs oxygon from the air, ..."

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