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Definition of Pyridine
1. Noun. A toxic colorless flammable liquid organic base with a disagreeable odor; usually derived from coal.
Definition of Pyridine
1. n. A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaïnes, may be mentioned. See Lutidine.
Definition of Pyridine
1. Noun. (organic compound) Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms and an nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C5H5N. ¹
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Definition of Pyridine
1. a flammable liquid [n -S] : PYRIDIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyridine
Literary usage of Pyridine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"Both of the methyl derivatives, Methoxy-pyridine and Methyl-pyridone, ... They are
liquids of unpleasant piercing odour resembling that of pyridine, ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"ACTION OF BROMINE UPON IODIDES OF pyridine. • pyridine ... The samples for analysis
were crystallized from alcohol. Pure pyridine ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"pyridine is a colourless mobile liquid, having a most powerful and peculiar odour
... The refractive indices of a specimen of pyridine from Dr. Hofmann's ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"On the Conductivity of Electrolytes in pyridine and other Solvents. ...
The unsaturated amine pyridine, on the other hand, proved to be more suitable. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"If one carboxyl- group be removed from the original acid and then it be oxidised,
the following acids are successively obtained : — pyridine- ..."
6. Coal Tar Distillation and Working Up of Tar Products by Arthur Robert Warnes (1918)
"THE plant required for the working up of pyridine acid for pyridine will be ...
Dealing with the plant for the manufacture of crude pyridine, there are ..."
7. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"They constitute rather over 52 per cent, of the 2-methyl pyridine taken, and so
far are the only solid product of the change. ..."
8. Coal Tar Distillation and Working Up of Tar Products by Arthur Robert Warnes (1913)
"THE plant required for the working up of pyridine acid for pyridine will be dealt
with under ... (a) That required for the manufacture of crude pyridine, ..."
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