mercaptan in English

noun

[mɜr'kæptæn /mɜː'k-]

any of a class of foul-smelling chemical compounds which contain sulfur (Chemistry)

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1. AMMONIUM Bisulfide: ICSC: 1035: Ammonium hydrogen sulfide Ammonium hydrosulfide Ammonium sulfhydrate Ammonium mercaptan: September 2002

2. The three most important raw materials used to produce methionine are acrolein, methyl mercaptan and hydrocyanic acid.

3. Mercaptan is also used in the natural gas industry as an odorant, due to its ideal compatibility with methane.

4. In the second step, the phenol and acetone produced is reacted, preferably without intermediate purification, in the presence of a cation exchange resin catalyst that includes a cation exchange resin and a mercaptan or mercaptoalkanoic acid promoter to produce BPA.

5. Adsorbates on Radical Chain Reactions Glen Allen Ferguson, Christopher Trong-Linh Than, and Krishnan Raghavachari* Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 ABSTRACT The reaction mechanism for the adsorption and growth of allylic mercaptan (ALM) at a defect site on the Si(100)-2 1 surface has recently been proposed.