to introduce one or more butyl groups into (a compound)
Derived forms
butylation
noun
Word origin
[butyl + -ate1]-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)
Examples of 'butylate' in a sentence
butylate
Butylate + atrazine, in all rates, atrazine + metolachlor and atrazine gave good control of the weeds in general.
C. A. L. dos Santos, A. Rozanski 1979, 'Controle de plantas daninhas na cultura do milho (Zea mays L.) por meio de herbicidasWeed control in maize (Zea mays L.) with herbicides', Planta Daninhahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-83581979000200010. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)