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  • noun organic chemistry Any salt or ester of bromoacetic acid

Etymologies

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bromo- +‎ acetate

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Examples

  • The entire lab stank from chemicals in unvented storage cabinets, and became lachrymatory when reactions using excess ethyl bromoacetate had to be worked up outside the hood.

    Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography 2009

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