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Ethyl

Ethyl \Eth"yl\, n. [Ether + -yl.] (Chem.) A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.

Ethyl aldehyde. (Chem.) See Aldehyde.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ethyl

1838, from German ethyl (Liebig, 1834), from ether + -yl. Ethyl alcohol, under other names, was widely used in medicine by 13c.

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ethyl

n. (context organic chemistry English) The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.

WordNet
ethyl

n. the univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom [syn: ethyl group, ethyl radical]

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Ethyl

Ethyl may refer to:

  • Ethyl group, a functional group in organic chemistry
  • Ethyl Corporation, a fuel additive company
  • Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol
  • Cold Ethyl, a rock band founded by Nicke Andersson
  • Gasoline treated with the antiknocking agent tetraethyllead, which was made by the Ethyl Corporation
  • Ethyl Sinclair, character in the TV show Dinosaurs.

Usage examples of "ethyl".

Of course, for the launch itself, an immense amount of energy is required, so some of the Ethyls are actually part of the gantry apparatus, hooked up to the Painships to provide adequate power for lift-off.

Bob the Torturnaut rode the white highway of the dying Ethyls all the way to the end of the line, the blinding light giving way to a sunny, flowery hillside from a painting you put over your discount warehouse couch.

He peeled off his psychic isolation garment, and it was then that he began to sense the presence of the dead Ethyls all around him, even thought he glimpsed a fleeting phantom form out of the corner of his eye.

Bob staggered up the slope toward her, the Ethyls patiently keeping pace.

Bob could raise his head now, and as he did he watched as the spirits of the Ethyls passed through her body, her arms extended in an embrace, and then they were gone, too.

The Baron scoured the entirety of the vessel, from the Supercritical Harrow Tank to the Debasing Pods, and not only did the Baron not find Madeline, the Ethyls appeared to be missing, too.

The gantry Ethyls had already been taken from their fuel cells and were in place at the base of the Painship.

The Ethyls used their energy to revive him before departing for a better, brighter place, and he left the Painship under their power.

Research people told Gordon that any horse given ethyl isobutrazine would go utterly beserk and literally try to climb the walls.

By the end of 1921 ethyl esters were being administered to 1,000 Culion patients.

She followed him through a door marked AUTHORIZED PERSONS ONLY, into the exhibit laboratory, a reassuringly familiar place with its display cases and smells of shellac and camphor, acetone and ethyl alcohol.

All those methyl ethyl bethels in the spell are difficult enough to get straight when you're at the top of your form.

Nitrocellulose dope is made by adding glycol sebacate, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate or butyl alcohol to a solution of nitrocellulose.

Soap is a chemical compound formed when the metal component of the lye, sodium or potassium binds with a free fatty acid and loosely attaches itself to a methyl or ethyl ester in the bio-diesel.

They use various derivatives of opium, like morphine and heroin, also codeine, dionin, narcein, ethyl chloride and bromide, nitrite of amyl, amylin,—and the skill that they have acquired in the manipulation of these powerful drugs stamps them as the most dangerous coterie of criminals in existence.