Definitions
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, atoxic gas, having many industrial applications.
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It is also used to make methamphetamine from phenyl-2-propanone and methylamine
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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.
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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
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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
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Among the simplest of these compounds may be mentioned methylamine
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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When heated with strong potassium hydrate, it yields methylamine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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The service said in a statement the chemical, methylamine, had arrived in a shipment from Shanghai.
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Mexico's Navy says in a statement Thursday that the methylamine was found over several days this month in the port of Lazaro Cardenas.
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Mexico's Navy says in a statement Thursday that the methylamine was found over several days this month in the port of Lazaro Cardenas.
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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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