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trimethylamines

trimethylamines is the plural of trimethylamine.

Meaning of trimethylamine

Noun

trimethylamine (countable and uncountable, plural trimethylamines)

  1. The tertiary amine (CH₃)₃N; a colourless gas with a fishy smell that is a product of animal and vegetable decomposition.
    • We would get fresh fish every Friday, carp and pike, which my mother would grind to make the gefilte fish for shabbas. One Friday I added a little trimethylamine to the fish, and when my mother smelled this, she grimaced and threw the lot away.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Questions about trimethylamines

What is trimethylamines the plural of?
Trimethylamines is the plural of trimethylamine.

Words near trimethylamines in the dictionary

  1. trimethylalkane
  2. trimethylalkanes
  3. trimethylaluminium
  4. trimethylaluminum
  5. trimethylamine
  6. trimethylamines
  7. trimethylaminuria
  8. trimethylammonium
  9. trimethylammoniums
  10. trimethylanaminium
  11. trimethylaniline

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