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Amyl

noun
1.
A hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds.



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amyl alcohol
amyl nitrate


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"Amyl" Quotes from Famous Books



... does not yield a green colour with chlorine water and ammonia; is dextro-rotatory; not fluorescent, and practically insoluble in ammonia and in ether. A fourth alkaloid, cinchonidine, is isomeric with cinchonine, which yields it when boiled with amyl alcoholic potash, but is laevo-rotatory, slightly soluble in ether, and faintly fluorescent. When red bark is extracted with dilute hydrochloric acid, the product filtered, and excess of sodium hydrate added ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various


Words linked to "Amyl" :   amyl nitrate, group, radical, chemical group


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