Definition of Nitroso

1. Noun. (chemistry) The univalent radical and functional group -N=O ¹

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Definition of Nitroso

1. containing nitrosyl [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitroso

nitrosamide
nitrosamides
nitrosamine
nitrosamines
nitrosate
nitrosated
nitrosation
nitrosations
nitrosative
nitrosative stress
nitroscanate
nitrose
nitrosidative
nitrosimine
nitrosimines
nitroso (current term)
nitroso-
nitrosobacteria
nitrosobenzene
nitrosochloride
nitrosocysteine
nitrosoethylurea
nitrosolic acid
nitrosomethylurethane
nitrosomonas
nitrosonium
nitrosotransferase
nitrosourea
nitrosoureas
nitrostarch

Literary usage of Nitroso

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

1. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1836)
"nitroso-nitric acid ignites essential oils, carbon, and phosphorus; the latter explosively. It is much more energetic in its reaction with such substances ..."

2. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"N Nitrous acid derivatives in which the nitroso group enters the ring are formed by the ... By starting with nitroso phenol, however, the amino group may be ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen, William Ridgely Orndorff (1922)
"It is made from picric acid (378) by distilling with bleaching powder, and hence the name. It was used as a " poison gas " in the World War. nitroso AND ..."

4. The Fundamental Processes of Dye Chemistry by Hans Eduard Fierz-David (1921)
"(a) nitroso-dimethylaniline. Cl 100 Gms. dimethylaniline are mixed with 200 gms. 30 % hydro- 100 gms chloric acid and, after cooling, 300 gms. of ice are ..."

5. Coal Tar Dyes and Intermediates by Edward de Barry Barnett (1919)
"They are all nitroso-phenols and are obtained by the action of nitrous acid on the phenols. The nitroso-group enters the para-position if this is vacant, ..."

6. Metallurgical Analysis by Dana James Demorest, Nathaniel Wright Lord (1916)
"nitroso-(3-naphthol Solution.—Dissolve 8 grams of the solid in 300 cc of cold glacial ... The cobalt nitroso-/3-naphthol precipitate is very voluminous ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"There are some features which the three absorption curves of quinone, £>-nitroso-phenol, and quinone dioxime show in common, and o-nitroso-phenol appears to ..."

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