Definition of Butyral

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) butyraldehyde ¹

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Definition of Butyral

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Butyral

butylhydroquinones
butylhydroxybutylnitrosamine
butylhydroxytoluene
butylidene
butyllithium
butyllithiums
butylmagnesium
butylmethoxydibenzoylmethane
butylparaben
butyls
butylscopolammonium bromide
butyne
butynes
butynyl
butyraceous
butyral (current term)
butyraldehyde
butyraldehydes
butyrals
butyramide
butyramides
butyrate
butyrate-CoA ligase
butyrates
butyration
butyric
butyric acid
butyric acids
butyrin
butyrins

Literary usage of Butyral

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

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1857)
"... butyral, ... He observes, however that the butyral with which he experimented was contaminated with ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"... with butyral С'НЮ.Н (i. 689), ethyl-butyral C'H'O.CFH", ..."

3. The Chemical Gazette (1854)
"This opinion has already been expressed by Guckelberger with respect to butyral. The author failed in preparing butyral-ammonia from butyral, ..."

4. Elements of Modern Chemistry by Charles Adolphe Wurtz, William Houston Greene (1889)
"ButyraL—The principal product of the distillation of a mixture of butyrate ... butyral, which was discovered by Chancel, is a liquid, boiling at about 70°. ..."

5. The Chemical Gazette, Or, Journal of Practical Chemistry, in All Its by William Francis, Henry Croft (1855)
"... which showed that in the one case this was a mixture of compounds of butyral ... with great probability of all the acetones ; and also that butyral and ..."

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