methyl : Idioms & Phrases

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alpha methyl dopa

  • noun antihypertensive drug (trade name Aldomet) used in the treatment of high blood pressure
    Aldomet; methyldopa.
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Methyl alcohol

  • noun a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol
    wood alcohol; methanol; wood spirit.
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  • (Chem.), a light, volatile, inflammable liquid, CH3.OH, obtained by the distillation of wood, and hence called wood spirit wood alcohol ; called also methol, carbinol, etc.
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Methyl amine

  • (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 the class of substituted ammonias.
Webster 1913

methyl bromide

  • noun a poisonous gas or liquid (CH3Br) used to fumigate rodents, worms, etc.
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Methyl ether

  • (Chem.), a light, volatile ether CH3.O.CH3, obtained by the etherification of methyl alcohol; called also methyl oxide.
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methyl ethyl ketone

  • noun colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid
    butanone.
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Methyl green

  • . (Chem.) See under Green, n.
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methyl group

  • noun the univalent radical CH3- derived from methane
    methyl; methyl group.
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Methyl orange

  • noun an azo dye used as an acid-base indicator; used for titrations involving weak bases
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  • . (Chem.) See Helianthin.
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methyl phenol

  • noun any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant
    cresol.
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methyl radical

  • noun the univalent radical CH3- derived from methane
    methyl; methyl group.
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methyl salicylate

  • noun a liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain
    birch oil; sweet-birch oil.
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Methyl violet

  • (Chem.), an artificial dye, consisting of certain methyl halogen derivatives of rosaniline.
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Zinc methyl

  • (Chem.), a colorless mobile liquid Zn(CH3)2, produced by the action of methyl iodide on a zinc sodium alloy. It has a disagreeable odor, and is spontaneously inflammable in the air. It has been of great importance in the synthesis of organic compounds, and is the type of a large series of similar compounds, as zinc ethyl, zinc amyle, etc.
Webster 1913