Noun: methyl
| Singular | methyl |
| Plural | methyls |
Sample Sentences
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You might point out in the theory of oxidation of oils, in development of rancidity in oils, that many methyls accelerate this oxidation of oils. I do not want to burden you with a lecture on chemistry but there are some methyls like iron which has both a valence of two and of three. Another example is cobalt which has a valence of both two and three. [1973, Robert E. Cornish, Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies, page 119:]
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The southern acetates must be decarboxylated to methyls. [2003, Russell Timkovich, 73: The Family of d-Type Hemes: Tetrapyrroles with Unusual Substituents, Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard (editors), The Porphyrin Handbook, Volume 12: The Iron and Cobalt Pigments: Biosynthesis, Structure and Degradation, page 134]
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The most stable form has the groups staggered and the methyls as far from each other as possible (DA^([dihedral angle]) = 180°). [2005, Bruce A. Hathaway, Organic Chemistry the Easy Way, page 38:]
Nouns inflected like methyl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *médʰu
3. Proto-Hellenic *métʰu
4. Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu)
5. Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
6. Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
7. German -yl
8. German Methylbor.
9. English methyl
10. Borrowed from German Methyl; compare French méthyle.
11. French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Peligot, after determining methanol's chemical structure, introduced "methylene" from the Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) + ὕλη (húlē, “wood, material”) with the intention of highlighting its origins, "alcohol made from wood (substance)". The term "methyl" was derived in about 1840 by back-formation from "methylene", and was then applied to describe "methyl alcohol". See: German Nouns '
Methyl', French Nouns '
méthyle', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μέθυ'.
Verbs referencing "methyl"
English Nouns
mead, Russian Nouns
мёд, Czech Nouns
metyl, Polish Nouns
metyl.