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Definition of Citrals
1. citral [n] - See also: citral
Lexicographical Neighbors of Citrals
Literary usage of Citrals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Land of Israel: According to the Covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and by Alexander Keith (1844)
"... citrals, &c., and many other rich but strange plants, unknown to the European
traveller. Barley, wheat, and various kinds of pulse were abundant, ..."
2. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"Moreover these citrals, such as geraniol, readily condense to six carbon rings
on heating with acids, thus showing one possible origin of the aromatic rings ..."
3. The Chemistry of the Non-benzenoid Hydrocarbons and Their Simple Derivatives by Benjamin Talbott Brooks (1922)
"... the melting point has previously been pointed out, and the different melting
points of certain derivatives of these isomeric citrals is a case in point. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... (prepared from the citrals by the action of ozone on their solution in carbon
tetrachloride) are quantitatively decomposed in both cases into acetone, ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... and are able to affirm that both the natural aldehyde of lemon and of lemon-
grass oils and the citrals obtained by oxidation of linalool ..."
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