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A colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic
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cyclopropane
Word definitions for cyclopropane in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cyclopropane \cyclopropane\ n. a colorless flammable gas ( C3H6 ) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.
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Cyclopropane is a cycloalkane molecule with the molecular formula CH, consisting of three carbon atoms linked to each other to form a ring, with each carbon atom bearing two hydrogen atoms resulting in D molecular symmetry . Cyclopropane and propene have ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound pharmaceutical drug English) The simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C 3 H 6 , an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic.
Usage examples of cyclopropane.
The doctor told the departing detectives to look for villains with access to the anaesthetic gas cyclopropane, which came in orange cylinders, and wasn't much used because of being highly flammable and explosive.
I sat and ached a lot, and then phoned the taxi firm, who apologised that this Saturday and Sunday had already overstretched their fleet, but they would put me on their priority list from now on… yeah… yeah… never mind… I could have done with a double cyclopropane, shaken, with ice.
Rose, knowing that such a necklace existed, but not realising that the tape, if found, wasn't itself worth much and certainly not a million, may have hungered for it fiercely enough to anaesthetise everyone around at Bon-Bon's house with cyclopropane, and gather up every videotape in sight.
A lethal amount of insulin… a syringeful of 'goodbye' threat, a cylinder of cyclopropane gas, a prelude to any sort of injected extinction.