methyl isocyanate

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Chemistry. a highly toxic, flammable, colorless liquid, CH3NCO, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pesticides: in 1984, the accidental release of a cloud of this gas in Bhopal, India, killed more than 1700 people and injured over 200,000.

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Words nearby methyl isocyanate

methylheptenone, methylic, methylidyne group, methylisobutenyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, methyl isocyanate, methyl lactate, methylmalonic aciduria, methylmercury, methyl methacrylate, methylmorphine

Example sentences from the Web for methyl isocyanate

Although the gene itself stays unchanged, chemicals called methyl groups alter how that gene works.
Researchers Have Created a New Blood Test to Predict Risk of Suicide|Brandy Zadrozny|July 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This process, known as epigenetics, involves the addition of small chemical tags known as methyl groups to the DNA double helix.
How Famines Make Future Generations Fat|Carrie Arnold|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Just add methyl cellulose, a thickener that can withstand high temperatures.
Harvard Students Play With Food|Laura Colarusso|December 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Those stains which are dissolved in methyl-alcohol combine fixation with the staining process.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

Czapek says: "The well-known methyl pentoses do not occur in the free state in plant organisms so far as we know."
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme
Methyl furfurol was found here also, this method indeed giving better results than that of Maquenne.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme
According to the statements of the manufacturers, Bengus Analgesic Balm contains menthol, salicylate of methyl and lanolin.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
Methæmoglobin in the blood smaller than in para-acetamido-phenol, but more than when the methyl or ethyl compound is administered.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection|Alexander Wynter Blyth

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