Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A highly flammable, explosive, colorless gaseous cycloalkane, C3H6, sometimes used as an anesthetic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry, pharmacology The simplest
alicyclic hydrocarbon , C3H6, aninflammable gas, sometimes used as ananaesthetic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic
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Examples
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The word cyclopropane popped into my mind, surreal and inappropriate as a pigeon in a fish bowl.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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The word cyclopropane popped into my mind, surreal and inappropriate as a pigeon in a fish bowl.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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The word cyclopropane popped into my mind, surreal and inappropriate as a pigeon in a fish bowl.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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Anything that hissed like the lantern in the civil defense ward or had the weird burned-cheese smell of cyclopropane residue sent me into a tailspin.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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Anything that hissed like the lantern in the civil defense ward or had the weird burned-cheese smell of cyclopropane residue sent me into a tailspin.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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Anything that hissed like the lantern in the civil defense ward or had the weird burned-cheese smell of cyclopropane residue sent me into a tailspin.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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Reaction of styrene and ethyl diazoacetate in the presence of a small amount of a chiral Schiff base-Cu (II) complex gave optically active cyclopropane derivatives, albeit with
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Rose, knowing that such a necklace existed, but not realising that the tape, if found, wasn't itself worth much and certainly not a million, may have hungered for it fiercely enough to anaesthetise everyone around at Bon-Bon's house with cyclopropane, and gather up every videotape in sight.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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I said, 'I'd think it was one of them who squirted you with cyclopropane and laid me out with the empty cylinder, and I don't know who that was.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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A lethal amount of insulin ... a syringeful of 'goodbye' threat, a cylinder of cyclopropane gas, a prelude to any sort of injected extinction.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
vvector commented on the word cyclopropane
volatile hydrocarbon, no longer used in medicine as a sedative and for induction of anesthesia
February 7, 2018