单词 | paraffinic |
释义 | paraffinicadj. Chemistry. Of or relating to paraffin or a paraffin; consisting or characteristic of paraffins.Recorded earliest in paraffinic acid n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [adjective] > alkanes paraffinic1873 1873 F. W. Clarke Constants of Nature i. 237 (table) Paraffinic acid. C26H26NO10. 1890 Spectator 11 Sept. 462/1 Chemists are persuaded that the ethylenic form of linkage is not the equivalent of two paraffinic linkages. 1947 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 51/1 The present fuel used is a kerosine which has a paraffinic base. 1968 New Scientist 31 Oct. 268/3 Classifying compounds into paraffinic, ethylenic and heteroaromatic heterocyclic compounds. 1975 Sci. Amer. June 92/3 Their chromatogram showed a large component of paraffinic waxes that have a high boiling point. 1983 F. J. McQuillin & M. S. Baird Alicyclic Chem. (ed. 2) i. 12 The bond interactions..are in fact reduced by expansion of the carbon-carbon bond angles to an average..above the normal paraffinic angle. 1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 3472/2 Paraffinic (waxy) components, which precipitate out at low temperatures, are removed. Compounds paraffinic acid n. (a) now rare, a nitrogen-containing acid obtained by heating paraffin with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids; (b) any of various carboxylic acids derived from paraffins. ΚΠ 1873Paraffinic acid [see main sense]. 1906 H. F. Morley & M. M. P. Muir Watts' Dict. Chem. III. 802/1 Champion..has shown that nitrosulphuric acid slowly transforms it [sc. paraffin] at 90° into a liquid oil of the composition C13H26NO5 (called paraffinic acid)... Fuming nitric acid, according to Pouchet, also acts upon paraffin at 110°, forming a true paraffinic acid C24H48O2..together with other fatty acids. 1936 S. A. Waksman Humus vi. 137 Paraffinic acid, C24H48O2, was isolated..from the cold alcoholic extract. 1985 Analyt. Chem. 57 2207/1 Early work concentrated on identification of individual low molecular weight paraffinic acids for purposes of commercial scale isolation and purification. ΚΠ 1891 Athenæum 14 Mar. 347/3 On the Physiological Action of the Paraffinic Nitrites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1873 |
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