methylene

Noun

Meaning

A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, but regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; -- formerly called also methene.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

methylene group methylene radical MDMA chloride naphtha dichloromethane Brewers methylamine methene methylidene methylene-bridged methylene-crosslinked methylenebisacrylamide

Hypernyms

group radical chemical group

Phrases with the word

methylene-bridged 7-methylene methylene-crosslinked methylene bromide methylene dibromide methylene-bis-ortho-chloroaniline

Examples

After mid-1889, when Ehrlich was unemployed, he privately continued his research on methylene blue. Source: Internet

Microscopic visualization of the encapsulated bacilli, usually in very large numbers, in a blood smear stained with polychrome methylene blue (McFadyean stain) is fully diagnostic, though culture of the organism is still the gold standard for diagnosis. Source: Internet

Ehrlich obtained methylene blue from the company Meister Lucius & Brüning AG (later renamed Hoechst AG), which started a long collaboration with this company. Source: Internet

He became particularly interested in its use to stain bacteria and parasites such as Plasmodiidae – the genus which includes the malaria pathogen – and found that it could be stained with methylene blue. Source: Internet

He thought methylene blue could possibly be used in the treatment of malaria, tested it clinically, and by the 1890s methylene blue was being used for that purpose. Source: Internet

He was looking for an agent which was as effective as methylene blue, but without its side effects. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

methylecgonidine methylenate methylenation methylene bichloride methylene bisacrylamide methylene blue