Definition of Esters

1. Noun. (plural of ester) ¹

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Definition of Esters

1. ester [n] - See also: ester

Lexicographical Neighbors of Esters

esteemest
esteemeth
esteeming
esteems
ester
esterase
esterases
esterifiable
esterification
esterifications
esterified
esterified oestrogens
esterifies
esterify
esterifying
esters (current term)
estetrol
esthematology
estheses
esthesia
esthesias
esthesic
esthesio-
esthesiodic
esthesiodic system
esthesiogenesis
esthesiogenic
esthesiography
esthesiology
esthesiometer

Literary usage of Esters

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

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"The imido esters immediately combine with phenyl isocyanate, at ordinary temperatures, giving a quantitative yield of an addition product as follows: c,H,cr ..."

2. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis: A Manual for the Use of Analytical by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1896)
"Estimation of esters in Wine. — The compound esters in wine may be ... The volatile esters give the bouquet or odour, the fixed esters the taste to -wine. ..."

3. The Journal of Biological Chemistry by American Society of Biological Chemists (1917)
"Very little, however, is known of the use of esters of cholesterol or the part that cholesterol plays in the metabolism of fatty acids. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Concerning the Benzoyl esters of the Urine in Diabetes Mellitus, ... Alfthan demonstrated that the benzoyl esters are increased in diabetes mellitus. ..."

5. Catalysis in Organic Chemistryby Paul Sabatier by Paul Sabatier (1922)
"Methyl esters give the alcohol, partially split into methyl ether and water or ... esters of other aliphatic alcohols give the unsaturated hydrocarbons, ..."

6. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"As complex esters are less given to form condensation-products along the line just laid down, Fischer converted amino-acids into their acid chlorides by ..."

7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1908)
"Class of oxygen linkage. Etheric oxygen Class of substance. Ethers, RORi MHC (cals.). Hydroxylic oxygen Ketonic oxygen . esters ..."

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