Definitions for pyridines

pyridines pyr·i·dine

Spelling: [pir-i-deen, -din]
IPA: /ˈpɪr ɪˌdin, -dɪn/

Pyridines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in pyridines (deiinprsy).

Definitions for pyridines

noun

  1. a colorless, flammable, liquid organic base, C 5 H 5 N, having a disagreeable odor, usually obtained from coal or synthesized from acetaldehyde and ammonia: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.

Origin of pyridines

First recorded in 1850-55; pyr- + -id3 + -ine2

Examples for pyridines

Bush concluded, therefore, that pyridine and not nicotine is the toxic factor in tobacco smoke.

It gives a precipitate with iodine trichloride, and has therefore probably a pyridine nucleus, it may be an acid anilide.

When cinchonine is distilled with solid potassium hydrate, it yields pyrrol and bases of both the pyridine and quinoline series.

This is not exactly the case with the higher groups of alkaloids—the derivatives of pyridine and quinoline.

This latter base has been shown to be a hydrogen addition product of pyridine, C5H5N.

pyridine was, however, found in the smoke of all tobacco burned.

When heated with concentrated sulphuric acid, it is oxidized to pyridine.

Reference will be made later on to the effects of nicotine and pyridine on the human system.

Indeed, Ladenberg has recently succeeded in obtaining benzol as an alteration product from pyridine, in certain reactions.

As already stated, both series occur in coal-tar and the pyridine series also more abundantly in bone-oil.

Word Value for pyridines
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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