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lutidine

lutidine noun: any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.

Noun

lutidine (countable and uncountable, plural lutidines)

  1. Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.

Forms of lutidine

plurallutidines

Origin of lutidine

Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Anderson in 1851 as a contracted anagram of toluidine, with which the compounds share their empirical formula

Questions about lutidine

What does lutidine mean?
Lutidine means any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.
What part of speech is lutidine?
Lutidine is a noun.
What is the plural of lutidine?
The plural of lutidine is lutidines.

Words near lutidine in the dictionary

  1. Lutici
  2. luticole
  3. luticoles
  4. luticolous
  5. lutidiene
  6. lutidine
  7. lutidines
  8. lutidinic acid
  9. luting
  10. lutings
  11. lutino

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