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BUTYLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they butylate ... he / she / it butylates
Past simple: butylated
Past participle: butylated
-ing form: butylating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "butylate" is one way to...):
add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
butyl (a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9))
