Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A univalent organic radical, C2H5.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. C2H5. The radical of ordinary alcohol and ether. It has never been obtained in the free state. Alcohol is the hydrate of ethyl.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom
Etymologies
- eth(er) + -yl. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Not all alcohol-based hand cleansers contain ethyl alcohol, as this hospital case points out (also requires subscription):”
“The type of mercury used in vaccines, called ethyl mercury, has been found to be less toxic in humans than the methyl mercury you get from environmental sources (eating certain fish, for example).”
“The type of mercury used in vaccines, called ethyl mercury, has been found to be less toxic in humans than the methyl mercury you get from environmental sources eating certain fish, for example.”
“Actually, astronomers who were recently sifting through thousands of signals from Sagittarius B2, a big dust cloud at the center of our galaxy, found a substance there called ethyl formate, which is the chemical responsible for the flavor of raspberries, and the smell of rum, the drink popular with pirates.”
“Our everyday word alcohol refers to one particular member of this family, which chemists call ethyl alcohol, or ethanol.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“The chemical substance known as ethyl alcohol has been an artificial basis of good fellowship the world over, as well as furnishing a very fair share of the tragedy, the misery and the humor of the world.”
“The company says that patients taking Viracept have the potential to be exposed to an impurity called ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS).”
“They told the Guardian newspaper that, despite failing to locate any such aminos, they did find a substance called ethyl formate, the chemical responsible for the flavour of raspberries.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
“Scientists found that a giant dust cloud at the heart of the galaxy that has a substance called ethyl formate, which gives the berries its flavor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ethyl’.
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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.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Girls I wouldn't go out with
Nomen omen
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Galactic Milk - words that lead the ...
conjectures on words related to the roots melg- and (ga)lakts-
galaxy, galena, milch, milk, lettuce, lactic, galenious, moojuice, galax, lactalbumin, emulsion, milch cow and 29 more...
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Antique Names: Female
These names were once in common use - at least somewhat. Some are coming back. Some are almost forgotten. I think they would
make lovely names. Well... most of them.araminta, abigail, agnes, biddie, celestia, celestine, celia, ceola, chloe, claire, clementine, cordie and 179 more...
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