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Definition of Acetyl chloride
1. Noun. Colorless liquid acyl chloride (CH3COCl) that has a pungent odor.
Definition of Acetyl chloride
1. Noun. (organic compound) The acyl chloride of acetic acid, ''CH3COCl'' ¹
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Medical Definition of Acetyl chloride
1. CH3COCl;a colourless liquid used as a reagent; also corrosive, causing severe burns because of hydrolysis to HCl. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetyl Chloride
Literary usage of Acetyl chloride
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 (1915)
"Action of acetyl chloride on Maltose.—Five grams of maltose dried at 100° in
vacua over phosphorus pentoxide were treated with 25 g. acetyl chloride. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"With acetyl chloride or acetic anhydride. Primary and secondary amines give, ...
chloride is similar to that of acetyl chloride. 4. With oxalic ester. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1880)
"Under the influence of hydrochloric acid it should yield acetyl chloride, ...
On raising the temperature, acetyl chloride begins to distill at 55-60D, ..."
4. Chemistry, inorganic and organic by Charles Loudon Bloxam (1903)
"acetyl chloride is a colourless liquid, which fumes in air, ... This mode of
reaction renders acetyl chloride a most useful reagent for discovering the ..."