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Definition of Furfural
1. Noun. A liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent.
Definition of Furfural
1. Noun. (organic compound) A heterocyclic aldehyde derivative of furan; it is obtained commercially from bran, and has several industrial uses. ¹
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Definition of Furfural
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Medical Definition of Furfural
1. C4H3O-CHO; C4H3O-CHO;a colourless, aromatic, irritating fluid obtained in the distillation of bran with dilute sulfuric acid; used in the manufacture of medicinal agents. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furfural
Literary usage of Furfural
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"Application of a drop of distillate containing furfural, even in minute traces
... The presence of furfural in the distillate may also be indicated by first ..."
2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"Application of a drop of distillate containing furfural, even in minute traces
... The presence of furfural in the distillate may also be indicated by first ..."
3. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"Application of a drop of distillate containing furfural, ... The presence of
furfural in the distillate may also be indicated by first neutralizing the acid ..."
4. Treatise on Applied Analytical Chemistry: Methods and Standards for the by Vittorio Villavecchia (1918)
"Detection and Determination of furfural.— (.4) QUALITATIVE TEST. ... For this
purpose a standard solution containing 0-005 gram of furfural per litre of ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Derivatives of Methyl-furfural. ... and the resulting liquid is identical in
every way with 3 methyl-furfural; so that the reaction affords by far the ..."
6. Official and Provisional Methods of Analysis by Association of Offical Analytical Chemists (U.S.). Committee on Revision of Methods, Harvey Washington Wiley (1910)
"Prepare by weighing 1 gram of redistilled furfural and dissolving it in 100 cc
of 95 per cent ... One cc of this solution contains 0.0001 gram of furfural. ..."
7. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"—A trace of rhamnose or methyl furfural is added to the alcoholic solution of
cholesterol and then concentrated sulphuric acid is cautiously Edded ..."
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