English Explanatory Dictionary

lutidine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.

Word forms

lutidine lutidines

Etymology

Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Anderson in 1851 as a contracted anagram of toluidine, with which the compounds share their empirical formula

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