Lexic.us

Definition of Pyrrol

1. n. A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C₄H₅N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.

Definition of Pyrrol

1. Noun. (dated) (alternative spelling of pyrrole) ¹

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Definition of Pyrrol

1. pyrrole [n -S] - See also: pyrrole

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrrol

Literary usage of Pyrrol

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

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"pyrrol. That portion of the non-basic part of bone oil boiling at 98°-150° ... Two isomeric homo- pyrrol carboxylic acids are formed, which differ in the ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"As an unstable body, also, pyrrol claims our attention, for it may be laid ... But while in itself pyrrol offers many points of interest to the scientific ..."

3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1892)
"It is prepared by the action of iodised potassium iodide on pyrrol, and forms a tasteless, pale yellow, crystalline powder, having a faint thymol-like odour ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"As an unstable body, also, pyrrol claims our attention, for it may be laid ... But while in itself pyrrol offers many points of interest to the scientific ..."

5. Neues Handwörterbuch der Chemie by Karl Hell, Carl Haussermann (1890)
"Silberoxyd liefert mit pyrrol in geringer Menge eine flüchtige, krystallisirte Säure 9J 30)3i>j Natrium reagirt in der Kälte auf pyrrol nicht; ..."

6. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"pyrrol is nearly insoluble in water. It dissolves slowly in aqueous acids, ... Chloride of Cadmium with pyrrol.—On mixing the alcoholic solutions of pyrrol ..."

7. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"It does not, however, yield any pyrrol-red when heated with hydrochloric acid. Together with ethyl-pyrrol, ethylamine mucate yields also ..."

8. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"896 Ethyl-pyrrol, C4H4.NC.2H5> is produced in the dry distillation of the mucate and of the saccharate of ethylamine.1 It is a colourless liquid which in ..."

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