propyl
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of propyl
First recorded in 1840–50; prop(ionic) + -yl
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The fourth substance set to be banned in California, propyl paraben, was approved through what’s effectively a loophole in the FDA system.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Name and write the structures of all isomers of the propyl and butyl alkyl groups.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Two new chemicals, calcium propyl arsenate and diphenatrile, have yet to be fully proved in all conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is interesting to note that, whereas zinc methyl and ethyl give tertiary alcohols, zinc propyl only gives secondary alcohols.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The attendant circumstances of the analysis render it admissible that the influence of this second group of conceptions caused the displacement of amyl to propyl.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
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