Definition of Nitrosyl

1. n. the radical NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

Definition of Nitrosyl

1. Noun. (inorganic chemistry) The univalent radical -NO ¹

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Definition of Nitrosyl

1. a univalent radical [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nitrosyl

1. The radical NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively. Origin: Nitroso- + -yl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrosyl

nitrosobenzene
nitrosochloride
nitrosocysteine
nitrosoethylurea
nitrosolic acid
nitrosomethylurethane
nitrosomonas
nitrosonium
nitrosotransferase
nitrosourea
nitrosoureas
nitrostarch
nitrostryene
nitrostryenes
nitrostyrene
nitrosyl (current term)
nitrosyl chloride
nitrosylate
nitrosylated
nitrosylates
nitrosylating
nitrosylation
nitrosylations
nitrosylic
nitrosyls
nitrotoluene
nitrotoluenes
nitrotyrosine
nitrourea
nitrous

Literary usage of Nitrosyl

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

1. Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic: With Experiments by Charles Loudon Bloxam, John Millar Thomson (1907)
"When nitrosyl chloride is paused into oil of vitriol cooled to O° C., ... nitrosyl chloride is best prepared by heating nitrosyl sulphate with sodium ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"The red gas with which the chlorine is mixed consists of nitrosyl chloride. ... 630) to be merely a solution of chlorine in nitrosyl chloride in variable ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"(Rogers and Boye, Phil. Mag. J. 17. 397.) nitrosyl thallium chloride ... nitrosyl fluoride, NOF. Sol. in H2O. Solution decomp. on standing with formation of ..."

4. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1913)
"Addition of nitrosyl Chloride. The union of nitrosyl chloride with unsaturated ... There appears to be no relation between the additive power for nitrosyl ..."

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