Definition of Methylamine

1. n. See Methyl amine, under Methyl.

Definition of Methylamine

1. Noun. (organic compound) The simplest aliphatic amine, CH3NH2, a toxic gas, having many industrial applications. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Methylamine

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Methylamine

1. See Methyl amine, under Methyl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Methylamine

methyl sterol oxidase
methyl sulfoxide reductase
methyl t-butyl ether
methyl tert-butyl ether
methyl tertiary butyl ether
methyl violet
methyl xanthine
methyl yellow
methylacetylene
methylacetylenes
methylacrylic acid
methyladenine
methyladenosine
methylal
methylals
methylamine (current term)
methylamine dehydrogenase
methylamines
methylamino
methylammonium
methylamphetamine
methylamphetamine hydrochloride
methylamphetamines
methylarginine
methylase
methylases
methylaspartate mutase
methylatable
methylate
methylated

Literary usage of Methylamine

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

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"Acetate of lead is scarcely clouded by methylamine, but the nitrate is ... Nitrate of siloer is completely precipitated by methylamine ; and the oxide, ..."

2. Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory, J. Milton Sanders (1857)
"methylamine, when acted on by chlorine, bromine, and iodine, yields substitution products, which as yet have been little studied. Those of the corresponding ..."

3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1892)
"methylamine may be prepared by the action of alcoholic ammonia on methyl iodide, ... methylamine is best obtained pure by treating one equivalent of ..."

4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"methylamine, hut the nitrate is completely precipitated. With mercurous salts, methylamine, like ammonia, forms a black precipitate;—with corrosive ..."

5. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"From methyl- amine it may be separated by converting into chloride and extracting with chloroform ; dimethylamine chloride is soluble, methylamine chloride ..."

6. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen, William Ridgely Orndorff (1922)
"Write the equations representing the reactions by which methyl alcohol can be converted into methylamine by means of the nitro compound. ..."

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