nitrile
About 0.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- 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.
- 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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