Definition of Methylic

1. a. Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See under Methyl.

Definition of Methylic

1. Adjective. (chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing methyl. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Methylic

1. methyl [adj] - See also: methyl

Medical Definition of Methylic

1. Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See Methyl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Methylic

methylglyoxal
methylglyoxal dehydrogenase
methylglyoxalase
methylguanidinase
methylguanidine
methylguanidine synthase
methylguanine
methylguanosine
methylguanosines
methylhexaneamine
methylhistamines
methylhistidine
methylhistidines
methylhydrazine
methylhydrazines
methylic (current term)
methylidene
methylidenes
methylidenyl
methylidyne
methylidynes
methylidynium
methylimidazole
methylimidazoles
methylimidazolium
methylindole
methylindoles
methylindolizidine
methylisopropylthiambutene
methylisothiazolinone

Literary usage of Methylic

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

1. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"Compound methylic ethers are formed under the same circumstances as ... As in the case of alcohol, two species of combinations of methylic ether with acids ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"methylic oxalate crystallises in colourless rhombic tablets, melts at 51°, ... \Vith aqueous ammonia it yields oxamide ; •with gaseous ammonia, methylic ..."

3. Lecture Notes for Chemical Students by Edward Frankland (1881)
"methylic alcohol. Potassic chloride. 2. From the essential oil of Gaultheria ... methylic alcohol unites with some salts in the capacity of water of ..."

4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"The methylic sulphate, which collects in the form of an oil at the bottom of the acid watery distillate, amounts to at least as much as the wood-spirit used ..."

5. Chemistry for Students by Alexander William Williamson (1865)
"is replaced by an atom of ethyle ((C2H6) HO) may be used to prove that methylic alcohol is formed from water by the replacement of one atom of hydrogen by ..."

6. New Remedies: An Illustrated Monthly Trade Journal of Materia Medica edited by Horatio Charles Wood, Frederick Albert Castle, Charles Rice (1877)
"Arch, der Pharm.. Tan. 1876, 57. methylic ETHER, CHO, was first obtained in 1834 by Dumas and Peligot, through the action of sulphuric acid upon ..."

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