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Ester

noun

Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water.

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... an unknown substance would have to make an elementary analysis and some tedious tests to determine whether it contained methyl or ethyl groups, whether it was an aldehyde or an ester, whether the carbon atoms were singly or doubly linked and whether it was an open chain or closed. But let him get a whiff of it and he can give instantly a pretty shrewd guess as to these ...

— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson

... probably belong to different groups of organic compounds, and with our present-day scant knowledge of their chemistry, it is impossible to classify them. One is, however, justified in assuming that both the natural tannins and the related humic acids are ester-derivatives of hydroxybenzoic acids. [Footnote: E. Fischer, ...

— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser

... the childrens grow up; and the two firs boys, Roldan and Enrique, marrying and living in San Diego. Then are left only the senor and the senora, one little boy, Carlos, and my two beautiful senoritas, Beatriz and Ester. Ay! How pretty they are. Dios de mi alma! Where they ...

— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton

Words linked to "Ester" : maleate, cellulose ester, organic compound, banana oil, citrate, esterify, nucleotide, lactate, urethane, cyclohexanol phthalate, base, ethyl acetate, polyester