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lutidine

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Etymology

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Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Anderson in 1851 as a contracted anagram of toluidine, with which the compounds share their empirical formula

Noun

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lutidine (countable and uncountable, plural lutidines)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.

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