Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being a hydrocarbon unit, C4H9, that can occur as a substituent in an organic compound or as an ion or radical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrocarbon alcohol radical having the composition C4H9. It cannot be isolated, and occurs only in combination with other radicals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Either of four
isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C4H9, formally derived frombutane by the loss of ahydrogen atom. - noun A
synthetic rubber made by thepolymerization ofisobutylene .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)
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Examples
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The inner glass pain is sealed with butyl tape or butyl caulk to stop the house moisture entering the gap.
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A Mexican glass shop made unit (making assumptions here, of the many glass shops I have visited in Jalisco, somewhat primative by US standards) would likely have a butyl seal and maybe get a 5 - 10 year life (those were the expectations here in the past).
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A Mexican glass shop made unit (making assumptions here, of the many glass shops I have visited in Jalisco, somewhat primative by US standards) would likely have a butyl seal and maybe get a 5 - 10 year life (those were the expectations here in the past).
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A butyl seal could never withstand this heat/cool cycle - day after day.
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The inner glass pain is sealed with butyl tape or butyl caulk to stop the house moisture entering the gap.
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A butyl seal could never withstand this heat/cool cycle - day after day.
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A Mexican glass shop made unit (making assumptions here, of the many glass shops I have visited in Jalisco, somewhat primative by US standards) would likely have a butyl seal and maybe get a 5 - 10 year life (those were the expectations here in the past).
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He got caught sniffing butyl nitrate or something on a duty night.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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The inner glass pain is sealed with butyl tape or butyl caulk to stop the house moisture entering the gap.
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A butyl seal could never withstand this heat/cool cycle - day after day.
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