nitrile

See also: Nitrile and nitrilé

English

Etymology

Derived from benzonitrile which contains the −C≡N group. Benzonitrile was discovered and named by by Hermann Fehling in 1844.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪtɹaɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

nitrile (countable and uncountable, plural nitriles)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyano functional group −C≡N; they are named as derivatives of the appropriate carboxylic acid.
2. A type of synthetic rubber formed by the copolymerization of acrylonitrile and butadiene: nitrile rubber.
   • 2021, Ben Aaronovitch, What Abigail Did That Summer, Gollancz, page 96:

     Sitting in a box under my bed are the nitrile gloves that I bought to practise with my forensic kit.

Derived terms

• acetonitrile
• acrylonitrile
• aminonitrile
• arenonitrile
• azonitrile
• butyronitrile
• carbonitrile
• cefacetrile
• cefivitril
• chloronitrile
• dinitrile
• formonitrile
• glutaronitrile
• halonitrile
• isonitrile
• lergotrile
• malonitrile
• manitimus
• nitrilase
• nitrilate
• nitrile imide
• nitrile rubber
• nitrilic
• nitrilium
• nitrilotriacetic
• phosphonitrile
• piperonylonitrile
• propenenitrile
• trilostane
• verapamil

 

Translations

class of organic compounds

• Catalan: nitril m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腈 (cing¹)

  Mandarin: 腈 (zh) (jīng)

• Finnish: nitriili
• German: Nitril (de) n
• Hungarian: nitril
• Irish: nítríl f
• Italian: nitrile (it)
• Japanese: ニトリル (nitoriru)
• Korean: 니트릴 (niteuril)
• Polish: nitryl m
• Portuguese: nitrila f, nitrilo m
• Spanish: nitrilo m

Anagrams

• -tirelin, lintier

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Homophones: nitrilent, nitriles

Verb

nitrile

1. inflection of nitriler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Noun

nitrile m (plural nitrili)

1. nitrile