Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A toxic flammable gas, CH3NH2, produced by the decomposition of organic matter and synthesized for use as a solvent and in the manufacture of many products, such as dyes and insecticides.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colorless gas (NH2CH3), having a strong ammoniacal odor, and resembling ammonia in many of its reactions. It may be regarded as ammonia (NH3) in which the radical methyl (CH3) has been substituted for a hydrogen atom. When brought in contact with a lighted taper it burns with a livid yellowish flame. Methylamine may be condensed to a liquid; it has not been solidified. It is exceedingly soluble in water, and forms, with acids, crystallizable salts.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry The simplest aliphatic amine, CH3NH2, a toxic gas, having many industrial applications.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) a colorless, inflammable, alkaline gas, CH3.NH2, having an ammoniacal, fishy odor. It is produced artificially, and also occurs naturally in herring brine and other fishy products. It is regarded as ammonia in which a third of its hydrogen is replaced by methyl, and is a type of class of substituted ammonias.
- n. (Chem.) See Methyl amine, under methyl.
Examples
“It is also used to make methamphetamine from phenyl-2-propanone and methylamine”
“In 1863 Debus transformed hydrocyanic acid into methylamine with platinum black; however, this reaction is fugitive and soon ceases because cyanidation of the metal rapidly destroys its capacity to induce the reaction.”
“When heated with strong potassium hydrate, it yields methylamine.”
“The gases disengaged during the operation pass into a cooler, where they condense into a liquid which contains ammonia and methylamine.”
“Bernard, it is especially important, in the dry distillation of distiller's wash in a closed vessel, for the production of methyls, ammonia, acetates, and methylamine, that the mass shall be divided as completely as possible, since it then takes but a relatively moderate heat to completely destroy the organic coloring matter contained in the wash.”
“Among the simplest of these compounds may be mentioned methylamine”
“On 18 January, they found 12 shipping containers full of the precursor chemical methylamine in the Pacific coast port of Lazaro Cardenas.”
“The service said in a statement the chemical, methylamine, had arrived in a shipment from Shanghai.”
“Mexico's Navy says in a statement Thursday that the methylamine was found over several days this month in the port of Lazaro Cardenas.”
“The Bhopal plant reacted methylamine with phosgene to form MIC (methyl isocyanate), which was then reacted with 1-naphthol to form the final”
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