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Definition of Butyl alcohol
1. Noun. A flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents.
Definition of Butyl alcohol
1. Noun. (organic compound) Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols derived from butane; butanol ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Butyl alcohol
1. C4H9OH;several isomeric forms are known: (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butyl Alcohol
Literary usage of Butyl alcohol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"normal butyl alcohol, 46.85. Although the initial velocity of isobutyl alcohol
is smaller than that of the normal alcohol, the velocity is greater in the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Normal butyl alcohol may be changed into the secondary alcohol ; the normal ...
Tertiary butyl alcohol has a slightly narcotic action when taken internally, ..."
3. Solubilities of Inorganic and Organic Compounds: A Compilation of by Atherton Seidell (1919)
"Secondary butyl alcohol Iso butyl alcohol and Water. and Water. Can. Secondary Butyl
Alcohol per 100 Cms. Cms. bo butyl alcohol per 100 Gms. Aqueous ..."
4. Studies on Solution in Its Relation to Light Absorption, Conductivity by Paul Bell Davis, Harry Clary Jones (1918)
"ISO-butyl alcohol The iso-butyl alcohol was refluxed and distilled twice over lime.
Its specific gravity at 20° referred to water at 20° was 0.8033. ..."
5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"A second butyl alcohol was discovered in 1863, by De Luynes, and to it he gave
the name of butylene hydrate, because it is so easily converted into butylene ..."
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