amyl alcohol
- noun
- /ˈeɪmɪl ˈæl.kə.hɔl/
- Specialized
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alcohol amílico
- The chemist used amyl alcohol as a solvent for the reaction.
Examples
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Many amyl alcohols are used in various industrial applications.
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The production process involves the extraction and purification of amyl alcohol from fusel oil.
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Amyl alcohol is commonly used as a solvent in the laboratory for organic reactions.
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Because of its distinctive smell, amyl alcohol can be easily identified in industrial settings.
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Amyl alcohol is commonly used as a solvent in the laboratory for organic reactions.
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Because of its distinctive smell, amyl alcohol can be easily identified in industrial settings.
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The production process involves the extraction and purification of amyl alcohol from fusel oil.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is compositionally built from 'amyl' (a five‑carbon/pentyl radical) + 'alcohol' (an organic molecule with an –OH group), so its meaning — an alcohol derived from an amyl/pentyl group or a mixture of such isomeric alcohols — is directly derivable from the parts. Chemical naming is highly regular and cross-linguistically similar, so a learner who knows the constituent definitions will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Amyl alcohol: The name amyl alcohol comes from the old word amyl, which came from a word for 'starch' because it was first found in fermented grain oils. Chemists later used amyl to name a five-carbon part of a chemical, so amyl alcohol means the alcohol that has that five-carbon piece.
