acetonitrile

See also: acétonitrile

English

Etymology

From aceto- +‎ nitrile.

Noun

acetonitrile (plural acetonitriles)

1. (organic chemistry) The simplest organic cyanide or nitrile, CH₃CN, formally derived from acetic acid

Synonyms

• cyanomethane
• methyl cyanide
• ethanenitrile
• ethyl nitrile
• methanecarbonitrile

Derived terms

• haloacetonitrile

 

Translations

the simplest organic cyanide or nitrile

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乙腈 (zh) (yǐjīng)

• Finnish: asetonitriili
• German: Acetonitril (de) n
• Indonesian: asetonitril
• Italian: acetonitrile (it) m
• Japanese: アセトニトリル (asetonitoriru)
• Kazakh: ацетонитрил (asetonitril)
• Kyrgyz: ацетонитрил (atsetonitril)
• Persian: استونیتریل
• Portuguese: acetonitrila f
• Spanish: acetonitrilo m
• Turkish: asetonitril

Italian

Noun

acetonitrile m (plural acetonitrili)

1. (organic chemistry) acetonitrile