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Meaning of "butanol" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BUTANOL

From butan(e) + -ol1.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BUTANOL

ˈbjuːtəˌnɒl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUTANOL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Butanol is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BUTANOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Butanol

Butanol refers to a four-carbon alcohol with a formula of C4H9OH. There are four possible isomeric structures for butanol, from a straight-chain primary alcohol to a branched-chain tertiary alcohol. It is primarily used as a solvent, as an intermediate in chemical synthesis, and as a fuel. It is sometimes also called biobutanol when produced biologically.

Definition of butanol in the English dictionary

The definition of butanol in the dictionary is a colourless substance existing in four isomeric forms. The three liquid isomers are used as solvents for resins, lacquers, etc, and in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C4H9OH Also called: butyl alcohol.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BUTANOL

allopurinol · ethanol · eugenol · flavanol · flavonol · hexylresorcinol · isoproterenol · mestranol · methanol · nitinol · orcinol · panthenol · pentanol · propanol · resorcinol · retinol · tribromoethanol

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUTANOL

but · but and ben · but for · butadiene · butane · butane gas · butanoic acid · butanone · butch · butcher · butcher´s · butcher´s boy · butcher´s hook · butcher´s shop · butcher´s-broom · butcherbird · butcherer · butcheries · butcherly · butchery

WORDS THAT END LIKE BUTANOL

aminophenol · bioethanol · cannabinol · dinitrophenol · enol · espanol · Grand Guignol · hydroquinol · indophenol · methylphenol · octanol · Pagnol · pentachlorophenol · polyphenol · quinol · Rohypnol · rosinol · stanol · trinitrophenol · xylenol

Synonyms and antonyms of butanol in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «butanol» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUTANOL

Find out the translation of butanol to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of butanol from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «butanol» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

正丁醇
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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butanol
570 millions of speakers
en

English

butanol
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

butanol
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بيوتانول
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

бутанол
278 millions of speakers
pt

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butanol
270 millions of speakers
bn

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butanol
260 millions of speakers
fr

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butanol
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Butanol
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Butanol
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ブタノール
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

부탄올
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Butanol
85 millions of speakers
vi

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butanol
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பியூற்றனோல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

बोटॅनॉल
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

bütanol
70 millions of speakers
it

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butanolo
65 millions of speakers
pl

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butanolu
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

бутанол
40 millions of speakers
ro

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butanol
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βουτανόλη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

butanol
14 millions of speakers
sv

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butanol
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

butanol
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of butanol

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUTANOL»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of butanol
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about butanol

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUTANOL»

Discover the use of butanol in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to butanol and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Solvent Recovery Handbook
It is relatively non-toxic in that its IDLH is above its vapour concentration at 20 °C and it has a strong enough odour to alert most people to its presence at concentrations well below its TLV. n-Butanol has somewhat unusual qualities as far as its ...
Ian McN. Smallwood, 2002
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Alcoholic Fuels
BUTANOL Butanol is the most complex of the alcohol-based fuels. It is a four- carbon alcohol with a structure of CH3CH2CH2CH2OH. Butanol is more toxic than either methanol or ethanol. The LD50 for oral consumption of butanol by a rat is ...
Shelley Minteer, 2006
3
Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium Acetobutylicum for ...
Using antisense RNA, we investigated the downregulation of the histidine kinase coded by CAC0654 on solventogenesis and sporulation.
Ryan Sillers, 2008
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CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds
1-Butanol 4-chloro-: 9168 2-Butanol 1-chloro-: 9171 2-Butanol 3-сЫого-: 9169 2- Butanol 3-chloro (threo): 9181 2-Butanol 3-сЫого-, (R'JS'y. 9170 2-Butanol, 3- сЫого (erythro, DL): 4389 1-Butanol 2-сЫого-: 9173 1-Butanol 3-chloro-: 9174 ...
David R. Lide, G.W.A. Milne, 1993
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The Prokaryotes: Vol. 1: Symbiotic Associations, ...
... Applied Microbiology Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow. CHAPTER 3.1 Organic Ac id and Solvent Product ion, Part III : Butanol , Acetone and Isopropanol ; 1, 3- and 1, 2-Propanediol Product ion; and 2 ,3-Butanediol Product ion ...
Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, 2006
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Food Biotechnology, Second Edition
20.1 1 Integration of Fermentation and Recovery 542 20.12 Problems of Commercialization and Future Developments 543 20.13 Butanol Fermentation Waste and Byproducts 544 Acknowledgments 544 References 544 20.1 INTRODUCTION ...
Anthony Pometto, Kalidas Shetty, Gopinadhan Paliyath, 2005
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Handbook of Data on Common Organic Compounds
1-Butanol, 3-chloro-: 3601 1-Butanol, 2-chloro-: 3600 2-Butanol, 1-chloro-3,3- dimethyl-: 3603 2-Butanol, 1 -chloro^3-dimethyl-: 3604 2-Butanol, 3-chloro-2- methyl-: 3605 2-Butanol, 1-chloro-2-methyl-: 3606 2-Butanol, 4-cyclohexyl: 4461  ...
David R. Lide, G.W.A. Milne, 1995
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Microbial Diversity: Current Perspectives and Potential ...
The acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation, once an important industrial scale fermentation, is being revived by the development of new energy efficient fermentation and recovery techniques that make the process more efficient and ...
‎2005
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Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
19.3.3 Biobutanol Butanol produced from renewable materials is called biobutanol and is the result of fermentation of glucose from corn processing using Clostridium acetobutylicum and other anaerobic bacteria that produce butanol as a ...
John M. Walker, Ralph Rapley, 2009
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The Biofuels Handbook
Butanol or butyl alcohol can refer to any of the four isomeric alcohols with the general formula C4H9OH: (1) n-butanol, butan-1-ol, 1-butanol, n-butyl alcohol; (2 ) iso-butanol, 2-methylpropan-1-ol, isobutyl alcohol; (3) sec-butanol, butan-2-ol, ...
James G. Speight, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUTANOL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term butanol is used in the context of the following news items.
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Brewing death: Hooch's torrid affair with Mumbai
Once they send their consignments to legal alcohol manufacturing units, they are expected to add butanol to the liquid -which makes it ... «Mid-Day, Jul 15»
2
USDA Loan Guarantee Funding Solicitation Announced
... such as ethanol (from eligible feedstocks), biodiesel, hydrocarbons, biogas, and butanol. Eligible types of renewable biomass are specific to ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
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Evaluation of phytochemical content, antimicrobial, cytotoxic and …
Crude extract was further fractioned on the basis of increasing polarity, with n-hexane (HRR), chloroform (CRR), ethyl acetate (ERR), n-butanol ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
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Perstorp boosted by switch to specialized plasticizers
Separately, Perstorp has had the capacity to produce 90,000 tonnes/year of oxo-alcohol n-butanol (NBA), and 120,000 tonnes/year of ... «ICIS, Jul 15»
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Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases
Using bacterial strains of the Clostridium species, the syngas transforms either into short-chain alcohols like butanol and hexanol, or into ... «Nanowerk, Jul 15»
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SaBuCo prepares to start trial operations at largest butanol plant in …
Saudi Butanol Company (SaBuCo) is preparing to start trial operations at its largest butanol plant in Jubail in Q3-2015. To be carried out for ... «plastemart.com, Jun 15»
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Whiskey and Silver
But in 2006, an American inventor by the name of David Ramey drove his 1992 Buick 10,000 miles around America using only butanol in a ... «Daily Reckoning, Jun 15»
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Saudi Butanol gears up for Jubail plant trial operations
(MENAFN - Arab News) JUBAIL: Saudi Butanol Company (SaBuCo) is preparing to start trial operations at its largest butanol plant in Jubail in ... «MENAFN.COM, Jun 15»
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Unlocking fermentation secrets opens the door to new biofuels
“This work advances our fundamental understanding of the complex, system-level process of clostridial acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation,” ... «Ethanol Producer Magazine, Jun 15»
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Mumbai Toxic Alcohol Tragedy: Police Probing if Accused had …
Police suspect that excise officers take bribes not to add butanol, and this modus-operandi is being investigated as well. The Chief Minister has ... «NDTV, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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