Crossword-Solution: NITRILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nitrile | n. | Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NITRILE | anagram | LINTIER |
We have 6 clues for the answer “NITRILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ALKYL radical with cyanogen | 1 answer |
| COMPOUND of alkyl radical with cyanogen | 1 answer |
| Latex-like glove material | 1 answer |
| any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | 1 answer |
| any one of a particular class of organic compounds | 1 answer |
| ALKYL radical, member of | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with NITRILE (5)
All attempts to prepare fulminic acid, or nitro-aceto- nitrile, C(NO_{2})H_{2}CN, from the fulminates have failed.
Note: The nitriles are named with reference to the acids produced by their decomposition, thus, hydrocyanic acid is formic nitrile, and methyl cyanide is acetic nitrile.
This compound combines with hydrocyanic acid to form a nitrile which hydrolyses to dichlor-hydroxy iso-butyric acid.
Held synthesized the acid from ethyl chlor-acetoacetate (from chlorine and acetoacetic ester) by heating with potassium cyanide and saponifying the resulting nitrile.
The next step usually breaks the latter at the point indicated by (2), yielding glucose and benzaldehyde cyanhydrin, or mandelo nitrile.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).