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🧫 A chemical group 🧪 With two butyls
dibutyl

dibutyl

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Containing two butyl groups in a molecule
  • adjective
  • /ˈdaɪˌbjuːtɪl/
  • Specialized
: dibutil
  • A common plasticizer is dibutyl phthalate, which improves flexibility in plastics.

Examples

  • Researchers synthesized dibutyl phthalate for the study.

  • Researchers tested the properties of dibutyl compounds in the laboratory.

  • The chemist used dibutyl ether as a solvent in the reaction.

  • The dibutyl compound was used in the experiment.

  • The chemist used dibutyl ether as a solvent in the reaction.

  • A common plasticizer is dibutyl phthalate, which improves flexibility in plastics.

  • Researchers synthesized a new dibutyl compound to explore its chemical properties.

Surface Forms

dibutyl positive

Morphology

dibutyl = butyl (transparent) = di + butyl

Formed by the standard chemical prefix 'di-' meaning 'two' plus the chemical group 'butyl', so the meaning 'containing two butyl groups' is directly compositional.

Etymology

Dibutyl comes from the parts di- meaning 'two' and butyl, a chemical name that originally comes from a word for 'butter' because early chemists noticed a similar smell. So dibutyl as an adjective describes something that has two butyl groups in a molecule.