cinnamaten.
Chemistry.
A salt of cinnamic acid.
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1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 45 The cinnamate of silver.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 458 The cinnamates are monobasic.
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ˈcinnamal n. = cinnamic aldehide
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ciˈnnameïn n. = benzyl-cinnamate C9H7O2.C7H7, a constituent of Peru and Tolu balsams, etc., crystallizing in shining prisms.
ˈcinnamene n. an aromatic hydro-carbon C8H8, or C6H5—C2H3 (ethenyl-benzene, phenylethene), a very mobile and volatile colourless oil with a strong aromatic odour, obtained from cinnamic acid, storax, or the resin of Peru balsam; also called
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1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 580 Cinnamene is a very mobile, colourless oil.
cinnamol n. = cinnamene n.
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1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xxxix. 391 Styrol, or Cinnamol, C8H8.—This hydrocarbon is found in liquid storax.
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cinnaˈmenyl- comb. form a formative of names of acids, formed from cinnamic aldehyde, such as cinnamenylacrylic, cinnamenylangelic.
ciˈnnamic adj. of or pertaining to cinnamon, as in cinnamic acid, C9H8O2, or C6H5—C3H2O.OH (phenylacrylic acid), a monatomic aromatic acid obtained by the oxidation of cinnamon oil; cinnamic aldehideC9H7OH, cinnamic alcoholC9H10O etc.
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1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xxxix. 391 It [sc. cinnamyl alcohol] oxidizes first to cinnamyl aldehyde and then to cinnamic acid.
1881 Nature 7 July 229/1 Bertagnini, in 1856..obtained cinnamic acid artificially from oil of bitter almonds.
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ˈcinnamide n. the amide of cinnamyl C9H7O.H2N, a white crystalline substance.
ˈcinnamyl n. the aromatic monatomic radical, C9H7O′, of cinnamic acid, etc.
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1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 44 The base of cinnamonic acid, to which they have given the name of cinnamoyl.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 457 Oil of cinnamon is composed of cinnamyl hydride.
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