Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A highly flammable, explosive, colorless gas, C3H6, sometimes used as an anesthetic.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry, pharmacology The simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C3H6, an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic
Examples
“The word cyclopropane popped into my mind, surreal and inappropriate as a pigeon in a fish bowl.”
“Anything that hissed like the lantern in the civil defense ward or had the weird burned-cheese smell of cyclopropane residue sent me into a tailspin.”
“Reaction of styrene and ethyl diazoacetate in the presence of a small amount of a chiral Schiff base-Cu (II) complex gave optically active cyclopropane derivatives, albeit with”
“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.”
“I said, 'I'd think it was one of them who squirted you with cyclopropane and laid me out with the empty cylinder, and I don't know who that was.”
“A lethal amount of insulin ... a syringeful of 'goodbye' threat, a cylinder of cyclopropane gas, a prelude to any sort of injected extinction.”
“Imploring for release, he half said, half sobbed, desperately, 'I got the cyclopropane gas for Rose ...”
“Because it wasn't some old guy that gassed us with that cyclopropane.”
“I could have done with a double cyclopropane, shaken, with ice.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cyclopropane’.
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Cyclo
List of words containing cylco-, -cyclo-, &c.
cyclophosphamide, cycloheptatriene, cycloalkene, cyclooctadiene, cycloolefin, cyclooctatetraene, cyclobutene, cyclopropene, cyclotrigermene, cyclotrigermenium, cyclopropenium, cyclopropenoid and 90 more...
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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