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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A toxic flammable gas, CH5N, produced by the decomposition of organic matter and synthesized for use as a solvent, in tanning, and in the manufacture of many products, such as dyes and insecticides.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colorless gas (NH2CH3), having a strong ammoniacal odor, and resembling ammonia in many of its reactions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) See Methyl amine, under methyl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry The simplest aliphatic amine, CH3NH2, a toxic gas, having many industrial applications.

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Examples

  • It is also used to make methamphetamine from phenyl-2-propanone and methylamine

    Ethanol Has Its Own Commodity Status! 2007

  • 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.

    Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture 1966

  • The gases disengaged during the operation pass into a cooler, where they condense into a liquid which contains ammonia and methylamine.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various

  • 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.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various

  • Among the simplest of these compounds may be mentioned methylamine

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • When heated with strong potassium hydrate, it yields methylamine.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various

  • The service said in a statement the chemical, methylamine, had arrived in a shipment from Shanghai.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Mexico's Navy says in a statement Thursday that the methylamine was found over several days this month in the port of Lazaro Cardenas.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Mexico's Navy says in a statement Thursday that the methylamine was found over several days this month in the port of Lazaro Cardenas.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • On 18 January, they found 12 shipping containers full of the precursor chemical methylamine in the Pacific coast port of Lazaro Cardenas.

    BBC News - Home 2012

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