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nitrile

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Meaning

  1. noun Any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyano functional group −C≡N; they are named as derivatives of the appropriate carboxylic acid.
  2. noun A type of synthetic rubber formed by the copolymerization of acrylonitrile and butadiene: nitrile rubber.

Similar words

cyanide rubbers phenolics nitril nitrol nitrilium cyanoamino nitrocarbon hydroxynitrile nitriloacetate

Often followed by

rubber group rubbers groups and gloves is hydratase to

Word family

nitriles

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