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noun Chemistry.

banana oil (def. 1).

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Also called am·yl·a·ce·tic e·ther

[am-il-uh-see-tik, -set-ik, am-]. /ˈæm ɪl əˈsi tɪk, -ˈsɛt ɪk, ˌæm-/.

Origin of amyl acetate

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby amyl acetate

amygdaloid nucleus, amygdaloside, amygdule, amyl, amylaceous, amyl acetate, amyl alcohol, amylase, amylase-creatinine clearance ratio, amylasuria, amylene

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A record would spend years in larval form as an acetate, the big waxy master from which copies were made.
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Once both tracks hit acetate, a master record was sent to URP for pressing.
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The prototypes are built from a recyclable flat foam-rubber called ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA).
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With the president surrounded by “a fast Hollywood crowd,” someone offered him amyl nitrite, or “poppers.”
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This fluid is then heated, adding crystals of sodium acetate until it becomes perfectly clear.
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A portion of the yellow filtrate gave a reddish yellow precipitate with lead acetate.
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A precipitate obtained by adding lead acetate to a filtered solution of the original substance in 50 per cent.
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To the filtrate was added an excess of a solution of lead acetate in 50 per cent.
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The poison, if precipitated at all by lead acetate, must have gone down in one of the preceding fractions.
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British Dictionary definitions for amyl acetate

amyl acetate

noun

another name (no longer in technical usage) for pentyl acetate

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