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isopentanol

isopentanol noun: any isomer of n-pentanol, but especially amyl alcohol.

Noun

isopentanol (countable and uncountable, plural isopentanols)

  1. Any isomer of n-pentanol, but especially amyl alcohol
    • As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv

Forms of isopentanol

pluralisopentanols

Origin of isopentanol

From iso- + pentanol.

Questions about isopentanol

What does isopentanol mean?
Isopentanol means any isomer of n-pentanol, but especially amyl alcohol.
What part of speech is isopentanol?
Isopentanol is a noun.
What is the plural of isopentanol?
The plural of isopentanol is isopentanols.

Words near isopentanol in the dictionary

  1. isopentadiene
  2. isopentane
  3. isopentanes
  4. isopentanoate
  5. isopentanoates
  6. isopentanol
  7. isopentanyl
  8. isopentene
  9. isopentenes
  10. isopentenol
  11. isopentenyl

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