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  • noun organic chemistry, especially in combination The univalent radical CH3-O- derived from methanol

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  • As a stand-in, they used a much less viscous liquid known as methoxy-nonafluorobutane, originally formulated as a more environmentally friendly replacement for ozone layer-depleting industrial solvents.

    HappyNews - Top Stories 2008

  • It can react with OH to form formaldehyde, or return to CH3O2 in very roughly equal yields, or it can photodissociate to produce methoxy, CH3O.

    Passing Gas EliRabett 2010

  • In a clean atmosphere it can react with itself to form the methoxy, but this is really slow, compared to the channel involving reaction with HO2 which has a much higher concentration.

    Passing Gas EliRabett 2010

  • Where NO is available, the CH3O2 reacts with it to form methoxy CH3O.

    Passing Gas EliRabett 2010

  • Ricinine is an alkaloid (3-cyano-4-methoxy-N-methyl-2-pyridone) that shares a common plant source with Ricin, and its presence in the system infers Ricin exposure.

    Ricin Man 3, UPDATE 2008

  • Right: A modified form of pectin (low methoxy) can be bonded into a continuous meshwork by means of added calcium ions (the black dots), no matter what the sugar content.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Right: A modified form of pectin (low methoxy) can be bonded into a continuous meshwork by means of added calcium ions (the black dots), no matter what the sugar content.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • We also developed a means of producing fragments of polyatomic molecules (free radicals such as benzyl and methoxy) by directing a pulsed laser into a specially designed pulsed supersonic nozzle, and studying these cooled in the supersonic beam.

    Richard E. Smalley - Autobiography 1997

  • I have therefore developed the determination of the carboxyl group by acidimetry by using phenolphthalein as indicator; I have further elaborated the determination of the methoxy and methylimide groups.

    Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture 1966

  • I do not want to go into details, but would nevertheless stress the enormous simplification of the micro-apparatus as compared with the macro-procedure in connection with the methoxy determination; the weighing of the substance in tin-foil caps is new in principle and of great advantage, as the hydriodic acid does not bump because of its tin iodide content.

    Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture 1966

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