Crossword-Solution: MERCAPTAN
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| Mercaptan | n. | Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals. |
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| butyl mercapton | 1 answer |
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Sentences with MERCAPTAN (5)
Though in 1847 he published a paper in Liebig's ANNALEN DER CHEMIE on the 'Mercaptan of Selenium,' his mind was busy with the new ideas upon the nature of heat which were promulgated by Carnot, Clayperon, Joule, Clausius, Mayer, Thomson, and Rankine.
Recent researches have shown that a drug like mercaptan may be used to test the limit of olfactory appreciation.
Well, you will be astonished to know that your nose can detect the presence of 1/2,760,000,000 of a grain of mercaptan, a substance having a very bad smell.
Keep Bedelle waiting--outside." "Jim," said Professor Rootmeyer, the distinguished chemist, "there are only two things in God's universe can produce a smell like that--a dead Indian and butyl mercaptan." The Doctor immediately discarded the first hypothesis.
Etym: [Mercaptan + aldehyde.] (Chem.) Defn: Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.