Crossword clues for butyl
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Butyl \Bu"tyl\, n. [L. butyrum butter + -yl. See Butter.] (Chem.) A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hydrocarbon radical, 1868, from butyric acid, a product of fermentation found in rancid butter, from Latin butyrum "butter" (see butter (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context organic chemistry English) Either of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C4H9, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. 2 A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene.
WordNet
n. a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "butyl".
IV ports, administering additional doses of vitamins E and C, tirilazad mesylate, and phenyl tertiary butyl nitrone.
Fortunately, I had an adequate supply of a vermicide, normal butyl chloride, in liquid form, that I mixed with mineral oil and administered by stomach tube, causing the dogs to expel hookworms by the thousands.
Master of Sinanju a butyl rubber gasproof environment suit and matching gas mask.
Ogden, Utah, factory went to around-the-clock shifts, turning out flamingo-pink butyl rubber gasproof suits outfitted with what appeared to be corkscrew antennas in the seat area.
IV ports, administering additional doses of vitamins E and C, tirilazad mesylate, and phenyl tertiary butyl nitrone.
A jagged rent in the side of the float had been patched with butyl and fabric.
Nitrocellulose dope is made by adding glycol sebacate, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate or butyl alcohol to a solution of nitrocellulose.
Especially when it's realized that he was the man who developed the strain of scavengers that secrete this modified butyl mercaptan that turns men into paras!
More, they had suddenly regained an invisible aversion to the smell of butyl mercaptan -- even a modified butyl mercaptan -- and it was promptly discovered that no normal who had smelled wood-smoke became a para.
More, they had suddenly regained an invisible aversion to the smell of butyl mercaptan—.
I'd felt about the same way in training school when I got my first whiff of butyl mercaptan in the chemistry class and was told a living animal could make and use a similar odor.
Just a harmless mixture of materials like butyl mercaptan, butyric acid, methanethiol, skatole, cadaverine, putrescine .
Campbell very well knew that this was the formula for butyl mercaptan, which gives the skunk its smell, and I very well knew it, too, and Campbell very well knew I knew.
Just a harmless mixture of materials like butyl mercaptan, butyric acid, methanethiol, skatole, cadaverine, putrescine.
One of the byproducts of their metabolism is butyl nitrite, which smells like well-aged socks and makes humans get all faint and cross-eyed.