nitrile

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See also: Nitrile and nitrilé

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Derived from benzonitrile which contains the −C≡N group. Benzonitrile was discovered and named by by Hermann Fehling in 1844.

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nitrile (countable and uncountable, plural nitriles)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyano functional group −C≡N; they are named as derivatives of the appropriate carboxylic acid.
  2. A type of synthetic rubber formed by the copolymerization of acrylonitrile and butadiene: nitrile rubber.
    • 2021, Ben Aaronovitch, What Abigail Did That Summer, Gollancz, page 96:
      Sitting in a box under my bed are the nitrile gloves that I bought to practise with my forensic kit.

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nitrile

  1. inflection of nitriler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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nitrile m (plural nitrili)

  1. nitrile