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🧫 A chemical group 🧪 With two butyls
dibutyl

dibutyl

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A chemical that has two butyl groups
  • noun
  • Specialized
: dibutil
  • The chemical dibutyl phthalate is commonly used as a plasticizer in various industrial applications.
  • dibutyl phthalate

Examples

  • Researchers studied the effects of dibutyl compounds on the chemical properties of the material.

  • Its full name is Dibutyl Catecholandrogen, and it first came to my attention during my postdoctoral research at Duke.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Dibutyl Catecholandrogen, or DBCA for short.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • This is well-proven for childhood exposures to lead and is shown in laboratory animals for, among other things, high-volume chemicals like dibutyl phthalate and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate.

    Blog text (16)

  • The laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of dibutyl compounds in the sample.

Surface Forms

dibutyl singular
dibutyls plural

Morphology

dibutyl = butyl (transparent) = di + butyl

Formed by the standard chemical prefix 'di-' meaning 'two' plus the chemical group 'butyl', so the noun denotes a compound/group with two butyl units.

Etymology

Dibutyl comes from the parts di- meaning 'two' and butyl, a chemical name linked to 'butter' from its early discovery, and was used to name molecules with those parts. So a dibutyl as a noun is a chemical compound that contains two butyl groups.