Definition of Triethyl

1. Noun. (organic chemistry in combination) Three ethyl groups in a compound ¹

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Definition of Triethyl

1. containing three ethyl groups [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triethyl

trier
trier of fact
trierarch
trierarchies
trierarchs
trierarchy
triers
tries
tries on
tries out
triester
triesters
trieterical
trieth
triethanolamine
triethyl (current term)
triethylaluminium
triethylamine
triethylamines
triethylammonium
triethylene glycol
triethylenediamine
triethylenediamines
triethylenemelamine
triethylenephosphoramide
triethylenetetramine
triethylenetetramine dihydrochloride
triethylenethiophosphoramide
triethylgallium
triethyltin compounds

Literary usage of Triethyl

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

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"... but in its place large yellow octahedrons are deposited on evaporation, consisting of thn chloroplatinate of methyl-triethyl-phosphonium. f. ..."

2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"412 triethyl Methane, CH^H^g, was discovered by Laden- burg,3 by the action of zinc-ethyl ... triethyl-methane has a faint smell of petroleum, boils at 9C°, ..."

3. Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry by Heinrich Biltz, Wilhelm Biltz (1909)
"triethyl phosphate is a colorless oil having a typical etherial odor. It is miscible with water and is saponified by it to diethyl phosphoric acid. ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1899)
"Two condensation agents have already been described, namely, a triethyl ... with I/Sooth part of its weight of sodium, gives a 30 per cent yield of triethyl ..."

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