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

• anileridine
• aniline green
• aniline purple
• aniline yellow
• anilinic
• anilinism
• anilinium
• anilinohydroquinone
• anilinopyrimidine
• anilism
• azodianiline
• bromoaniline
• butanilicaine
• chrysaniline
• dichloroaniline
• diethylaniline
• dimethylaniline
• dinitroaniline
• ethylaniline
• hydroxyaniline
• iodoaniline
• leucaniline
• mauvaniline
• methoxyaniline
• nitraniline
• nitroaniline
• oligoaniline
• phenylaniline
• polyaniline
• violaniline

 

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

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.

Italian

Noun

aniline f

1. plural of anilina

Anagrams

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