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Definition: Urethane |
UrethaneNoun1. An ester of carbamic acid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Antineoplastic agent that is also used as a veterinary anesthetic. It has also been used as an intermediate in organic synthesis. Urethane is suspected to be a carcinogen. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
R-N=C=O + H-O-Q →Although the reaction had been known for some decades, it was not until 1937 that Otto Bayer discovered how to make a useful plastic out of polyisocyanate and polyol.H / R-N \\ C=O / Q-O
Urethane technology was brought to America in 1953 by Jean-Pierre Abbat and Dr. Fritz Hartmann.
Polyurethane can be made in a variety of textures and hardnesses by varying the particular monomers used and adding other substances. It is used in adhesives, elastomers, foams, sealss, gaskets, condoms, and hard parts.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Polyurethane."
Crosswords: Urethane |
| English words defined with "urethane": carbamic acid ♦ ployurethan, polyurethane. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "urethane": INSULATION WORKER ♦ PANEL LAMINATOR ♦ ROOFER APPLICATOR. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Around 1944, H. Meyer set up mice for radiation exposure investigations by A. Nettleship and P. Henshaw. The carcinogenesis of urethane was discovered in the course of these experiements. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| "Urethane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Urethane" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "urethane": urethane-anaesthetised, urethane-polymeric. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "urethane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 氨基ç"²é…¸è„‚. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | urethan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | urethaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uretaani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | urethane, uréthane (urethan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Urethan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uretano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ウラン濃縮 (polyurethane rubber, ultra, ultramarine, ultramodern, ultranationalism, uranium enrichment, urethane foam, Uruguay, Uruguay round, wolf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ウレタンフォーム(Urethane foam), ウレタン (urethane foam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ìš°ë ˆíƒ„. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethaneuray uretano. (various references) уретан. (various references) uretano. (various references) uretan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "urethane": urethanes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "urethane": polyurethane. (additional references) | |
Words containing "urethane": polyurethanes. (additional references) | |
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"Urethane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uretha, urethan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "urethane" (pronounced yer"uthā'n) |
| 4 | -u th ā' n | polyurethane. |
| 3 | -th ā' n | ethane, methane. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: earthen, haunter, hearten, unearth, urethan. | |
-2 letters: aether, anther, entera, ethane, heater, hereat, hunter, nature, neater, nether, neuter, reheat, retune, tenure, thenar, tureen. | |
-3 letters: antre, arete, earth, eaten, eater, enate, enter, enure, ether, hater, haunt, haute, heart, neath, ranee, rathe, rente, terne, thane, there, three, treen, tuner, unhat, urate. | |
-4 letters: ante, aunt, earn, eath, erne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: eutherian, unearthed, unwreathe, urethanes. | |
+2 letters: eutherians, headhunter, underneath, unfathered, unthreaded, unwreathed, unwreathes. | |
+3 letters: furtherance, headhunters, heteroauxin, houseparent, thunderhead, unchartered, unharvested, unhealthier, unweathered. | |
+4 letters: furtherances, heteroauxins, housepainter, houseparents, housetrained, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neuropathies, polyurethane, southeastern, superheating, thunderheads, unbreathable. | |
+5 letters: counterchange, countercharge, counterthreat, hermeneutical, housepainters, neurasthenias, neurasthenics, pneumatophore, polyurethanes, thermonuclear, unearthliness, untheoretical, unthreatening. | |
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