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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Volatile organic compounds containing sulphur which have an unpleasant smell. They sometimes occur in wine or are formed during distillation of wine rich in SO2. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
They are colorless liquids having an odor resembling that of garlic; strong and repulsive. Looking at its binding states for metals, particularly mercury, one can see the reason for its name, from the Latin mercurius captans, laying hold of mercury.
Examples:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mercaptans."
Crosswords: MERCAPTANS |
| English words defined with "MERCAPTANS": Hydrosulphide ♦ Mercaptal ♦ Sulphonic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MERCAPTANS": Doctor test ♦ sour gas, sweetening treatment, sweeting treatment. (references) |
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| "MERCAPTANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MERCAPTANS" is used about 4 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 (plural) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mercaptans | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "MERCAPTANS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | merkaptan (mercaptan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mercaptan (mercaptan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | merkaptaani (mercaptan), tioalkoholi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mercaptans. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mercaptan (mercaptan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μερκαπτάνες, θειαλκοόλες. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mercaptano (mercaptan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ercaptansmay mercaptanos. (various references) mercaptanos. (various references) merkaptaner, tioler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: catnapers, mercaptan, paraments, sacrament. | |
-2 letters: cantraps, caterans, catnaper, mantraps, pancreas, parament, sarmenta, spaceman, spearman. | |
-3 letters: amtracs, anapest, arpents, cameras, campers, canapes, canters, cantrap, capstan, captans, carates, carnets, carpets, catenas, cateran, catnaps, encamps, entraps, mantrap, mantras, martens, nectars, parents, partans, pastern, peasant, prances, preacts, precast, ramenta, rampant, recants, restamp, sarment, scamper, scanter, smarten, spartan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: emancipators. | |
+3 letters: paramountcies. | |
+4 letters: cinematographs, parenchymatous. | |
+5 letters: comparativeness, premanufactures. | |
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