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oleanitrile

oleanitrile noun: the nitrile formally derived from oleic acid by replacement of the -COOH group by -CN.

Noun

oleanitrile (uncountable)

  1. The nitrile formally derived from oleic acid by replacement of the -COOH group by -CN
    • Whereas, the contents of piperidine, oxalate, octadecanoate, urea, carbamate, ethane and oleanitrile decreased 0.2-fold, 0.3-fold, 0.5-fold, 0.02-fold, 0.009-fold, 0.3-fold and 0.15-fold, correspondingly.2016 January 12, “Metabolic Analysis of Medicinal Dendrobium officinale and Dendrobium huoshanense during Different Growth Years”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about oleanitrile

What does oleanitrile mean?
Oleanitrile means the nitrile formally derived from oleic acid by replacement of the -COOH group by -CN.
What part of speech is oleanitrile?
Oleanitrile is a noun.

Words near oleanitrile in the dictionary

  1. oleandomycins
  2. oleandrigenin
  3. oleandrin
  4. oleandrine
  5. oleandrose
  6. oleanitrile
  7. oleanolate
  8. oleanolates
  9. oleanolic
  10. oleanolic acid
  11. oleanolic acids

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