a colourless flammable soluble mobile liquid with a penetrating odour, present in oat and rice hulls; 2-furaldehyde: used as a solvent and in the manufacture of resins. Formula: C5H4O2
Also called: furfural, furfur, fural
Examples of 'furfuraldehyde' in a sentence
furfuraldehyde
Methanolic extracts showed signals of (1) furfural, (2) furfural acetone (3) furfuraldehyde and (4) β–sitosterol compounds.
Amanda Sánchez-Recillas, Ana Ly Arroyo-Herrera, Jesús Alfredo Araujo-León, EmanuelHernández Núñez, Rolffy Ortiz Andrade 2017, 'Spasmolytic and Antibacterial Activity of Two Citrus sinensis Osbeck Varieties Cultivatedin Mexico', Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicinehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3960837. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)