Ethyl Chloride Definition

noun
A colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic.
Webster's New World

(organic chemistry) Chloroethane.

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Ethyl Chloride Sentence Examples

  • For this purpose it is best applied as a fine spray, but ethyl chloride is generally found more efficient and produces less subsequent discomfort.

  • It is easily broken down by many substances (aluminium chloride, zinc chloride, &c.) into ethyl chloride and carbon dioxide.

  • In 1935, JL took over the Atmos project and developed the first ethyl chloride model in 1936.

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