Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chemical group, NCO.
- noun A salt, ester, or anion of isocyanic acid.
- noun Any of various compounds that contain an isocyanate group, NCO. Isocyanates are used mainly in production of polyurethane and can cause respiratory disorders, especially asthma, if inhaled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt of isocyanic acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry the
univalent radical -N=C=O (tautomeric withcyanate ), and any of itshydrocarbyl derivatives R-N=C=O
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a salt or ester of isocyanic acid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The blast involved the chemical methyl isocyanate, which is used to produce pesticides.
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Fire crews identified one chemical involved as isocyanate, which is commonly used in vehicle paint and can cause asthma.
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An explosion in the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly gas called methyl isocyanate, which is used to make pesticides.
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An explosion in the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly gas called methyl isocyanate, which is used to make pesticides.
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An April 21, 2009 memo by the staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee concluded that, had the Bayer accident involved a 37,000-pound tank of methyl isocyanate (MIC) located just 80 feet from the blast, the accident could have "eclipsed the 1984 [Bhopal] disaster in India."
Elizabeth Hitchcock: In The Public Interest : How Many Reminders Do We Need Before We Act To Reduce Chemical Accident Risk? Elizabeth Hitchcock 2010
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An April 21, 2009, memo by the staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee concluded that, had the Bayer accident involved a 37,000-pound tank of methyl isocyanate (MIC) located just 80 feet from the blast, the accident could have "eclipsed the 1984 [Bhopal] disaster in India."
Elizabeth Hitchcock: In The Public Interest : How Many Reminders Do We Need Before We Act to Reduce Chemical Accident Risk? Elizabeth Hitchcock 2010
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On December 3rd, 1984, in Bhopal, India, a leak from a methyl isocyanate gas tank in a Union Carbide plant sent out a dense poisonous cloud that killed 23,000 people — many of them that night, others soon after.
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Just after midnight on December 3, 1984, tens of thousands of pounds of methyl isocyanate, a highly toxic gas used in chemical manufacturing, were released into the air over the area.
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Mahindra was chairman of Union Carbide in India when deadly plumes of the gas methyl isocyanate began leaking out of a pesticide factory shortly after midnight on Dec. 3, 1984.
7 former Union Carbide officials sentenced to 2 years for Bhopal gas tragedy 2010
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"There were a number of design defects and other criminally negligent operational practices which resulted in the leakage of [methyl isocyanate] and these were in the knowledge of the management and were deliberately ignored for commercial reasons," said the CBI in a statement Monday.
Court Convicts Seven in Bhopal Gas Leak Tripti Lahiri 2010
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