aniline

aniline

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Anilin, coined by German chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche. From Portuguese anil (“indigo”) + -in (“-ine (organic compounds)”).

Noun

aniline (countable and uncountable, plural anilines)

1. (organic chemistry) The simplest aromatic amine, C₆H₅NH₂, synthesized by the reduction of nitrobenzene; it is a colourless oily basic poisonous liquid used in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals.

Synonyms

• aminobenzene
• phenylamine

Derived terms

• aniline green
• aniline yellow
• anilinism
• methoxyaniline
• polyaniline

 

Translations

the simplest aromatic amine

Catalan: anilina f Czech: anilin m Finnish: aniliini (fi) French: aniline (fr) f German: Anilin (de) n Greek: ανιλίνη (el) f (anilíni) Hungarian: anilin (hu) Indonesian: anilina (id) Irish: anailín m Italian: anilina (it) f Polish: aminobenzen m, anilina (pl) f Portuguese: anilina f Russian: анили́н (ru) m (anilín) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: анѝлӣн m Roman: anìlīn (sh) m Spanish: anilina f

Further reading

• aniline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

aniline f (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) aniline

References

• aniline on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

aniline f

1. plural of anilina

Anagrams

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