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Definition of Benzils
1. benzil [n] - See also: benzil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benzils
Literary usage of Benzils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Chemie und Verwandter Theile anderer by Justus Liebig, Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Will, Adolph Strecker, Alexander Nikolaus Franz Naumann, August Laubenheimer, Friedrich Bernhard Fittica, Guido Bodländer, Julius Tröger, Emil Baur (1890)
"... von gasförmigem Cyan- wasserstoff in eine kalt gehaltene alkoholische Lösung
des benzils; nach mehrtägigem Stehen scheidet sich das Cyanid aus. ..."
2. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"... and are capable of reducing Fehling's solution, even at ordinary temperatures,
when they are oxidized to benzils (diketones). 2 I = I + I • C6H6.CH. ..."
3. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1900)
"... being at the same time oxidized to the corresponding benzils. Chromic acid
oxidizes benzoin to benzaldehyde and benzole acid, while nitric acid changes ..."
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