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Definition of Acetamide

1. Noun. A colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds.

Definition of Acetamide

1. n. A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

Definition of Acetamide

1. Noun. (organic compound) The amide of acetic acid, CH₃CONH₂. ¹

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Definition of Acetamide

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Medical Definition of Acetamide

1. A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl. It is used as a solvent and acts as a mild irritant. (25 Jun 1999)

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Literary usage of Acetamide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1858)
"When acetamide is mixed with about an equal volume of anhydrous phosphoric acid, a violent action takes place, and acetonitrile passes over, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1863)
"By saturating glacial acetic acid with dry ammoniacal gas, and then distilling, 1 of the acetic acid may be converted into acetamide. ..."

3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"The acetamide left in the flask was distilled by heating the flask in an acid potassium sulphate bath at 140° to 150°, and was collected in the receiver, ..."

4. Hydrates in Aqueous Solution: Evidence for the Existence of Hydrates in by Harry Clary Jones, Frederick Hutton Getman, Harry Preston Bassett, Leroy McMaster, Horace Scudder Uhler (1907)
"acetamide. While the value of — for acetamide increases rapidly with the concentra- ... This indicates that acetamide neither forms hydrates nor undergoes ..."

5. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"The most important one is acetamide which we have used as our illustration and which may be formed by any of the methods given. ..."

6. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1869)
"8. By the action of ammonia on compound ethers: 0,11,0.00,11, -f NH, = HOC,H4 + NH,(C,H,0). Ethyl acetate. Ethyl alcohol. acetamide. acetamide, which may be ..."

7. Proceedings of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1878)
"I would contain 72.68 per cent, of monochlor-ethyl-acetamide and No. ... On account of the lack of distinctive properties between ethyl-acetamide and ..."

8. Chemistry for Students by Alexander William Williamson (1865)
"acetamide is also formed by the dry distillation of ammonia acetate. ... Products formed like acetamide by the replacement of hydrogen in ammonia by a ..."

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