amine

amine

See also: ammine, Amine, aminé, and -amine

English

Etymology

From ammonia +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmiːn/, /ˈæ.mɪn/, /ˈeɪ.miːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈmiːn/, /ˈæ.miːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn, (UK) -æmɪn, (UK) -eɪmiːn, (US) -æmiːn

Noun

amine (plural amines)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A functional group formally derived from ammonia by replacing one, two or three hydrogen atoms with hydrocarbon or other radicals.
2. (organic chemistry) Any organic compound containing an amine functional group.

Derived terms

• amine imide
• amine oxide
• amine scrubber
• amine ylide
• amino-
• primary amine e.g. methylamine
• quaternary ammonium compound e.g.tetramethylammonium hydroxide
• secondary amine e.g. dimethylamine
• tertiary amine e.g. trimethylamine

 

Translations

inorganic chemistry: functional group formally derived from ammonia

Finnish: amiini (fi) Hindi: तिक्ती (tiktī) Irish: (please verify) aimín m Italian: ammina (it) f Portuguese: amina f Romanian: amină (ro) f Spanish: amina (es) f

organic compound containing an amine functional group

Catalan: amina f Chinese: Cantonese: 胺 (yue) (on1, on3) Mandarin: 胺 (zh) (àn, ān) Czech: amin m Danish: amin c French: amine (fr) f German: Amin (de) n Hungarian: amin (hu) Irish: (please verify) aimín m Italian: ammina (it) f Japanese: アミン (amin) Khmer: អាមីន (ʼaamiin) Korean: 아민 (amin) Maori: amine Norwegian: Bokmål: amin n Nynorsk: amin n Persian: آمین‎ (fa) (âmin) Polish: amina (pl) f Romanian: amină (ro) f Spanish: amina (es) f Ukrainian: амі́н m (amín)

See also

• ammine

References

• “amine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• I mean, Maine, anime, animé, maine, manie, minae, minæ

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French

Noun

amine f (plural amines)

1. amine

References

• “amine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.