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butylating

butylating is the present participle and gerund of butylate.

Meaning of butylate

Verb

butylate (third-person singular simple present butylates, present participle butylating, simple past and past participle butylated)

  1. To react so as to introduce one or more butyl groups into a molecule

Questions about butylating

What is butylating the present participle and gerund of?
Butylating is the present participle and gerund of butylate.

Words near butylating in the dictionary

  1. butylate
  2. butylated
  3. butylated hydroxyanisole
  4. butylated hydroxytoluene
  5. butylates
  6. butylating
  7. butylation
  8. butylations
  9. butylbenzene
  10. butylbenzenes
  11. butylboronic acid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butylating (page history and authors); butylate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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