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ethyl group

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noun

Chemistry.
  1. the univalent group, C 2 H 5 –, derived from ethane.


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Particularly fugitive are the eosins, and yet some of these, by a slight modification of constitution, e.g., the introduction of an ethyl group, as in ethyl-eosin, are rendered distinctly faster.

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