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Definition of Propenyl alcohol

1. Noun. An unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Propenyl Alcohol

Literary usage of Propenyl alcohol

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

1. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Karl Schorlemmer (1884)
"Up to within recent years only one alcohol belonging to this group was known, namely propenyl alcohol, glycerol, or glycerine. At present several others ..."

2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"Up to within recent years only one alcohol belonging to this group was known, namely propenyl alcohol, glycerol, Or glycerine. At present several others ..."

3. Fownes Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical: A New American from by George Fownes (1885)
"Of these, however, only two are known, viz., propenyl alcohol, or glycerin, and pentenyl ... propenyl alcohol or Glycerin, OH ] jH.Oj = (C3H,)J ( CH. ..."

4. A Manuel of the Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Carl Schorlemmer (1874)
"... they are derivatives of propane :— Propane. Propyl Alcohol. Propene Alcohol. CH3 CH.( CH3 OH, i H. propenyl alcohol. CH CH2 CH^OH CH^OH 3H. ..."

5. A Manuel of the Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Carl Schorlemmer (1874)
"propenyl alcohol. OH CH2.OH CH^OH CH^OH CH,.OH Most fats and oils are mixtures of propenyl ethers of the fatty acids ..."

6. Lessons in Elementary Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe (1893)
"propenyl alcohol or glycerol ..... C2 The glycerols of the mono- and di- carbon series have not ... Glycerol, Glycerine, or propenyl alcohol, C2H6(OH)2. ..."

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