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hydroxylamine

American  
[hahy-drok-suh-luh-meen, -suhl-am-in] / haɪˌdrɒk sə ləˈmin, -səlˈæm ɪn /

noun

  1. an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.


hydroxylamine British  
/ haɪˌdrɒksɪləˈmiːn, -ˈæmɪn /

noun

  1. a colourless crystalline compound that explodes when heated: a reducing agent. Formula: NH 2 OH

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of hydroxylamine

First recorded in 1865–70; hydroxyl + -amine


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Next, they treated the cloth with hydroxylamine hydrochloride to add amidoxime groups to the polymers.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

The more concentrated hydroxylamine becomes, the more unstable.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2019

Draw the structure of hydroxylamine, H3NO, and assign formal charges; look up the structure.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

To make the pyrimidines, Carell started with compounds called cyanoacetylene and hydroxylamine, which react to form compounds called amino-isoxazoles.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2018

Well-dried hydroxylamine hydrochloride is dissolved in methyl alcohol and mixed with sodium methylate; a solution of methyldichloramine in absolute ether is then added and an ethereal solution of diazomethane distils over.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

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