methyl

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From the German Methyl; compare the French méthyle.

French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Peligot, after determining methanol's chemical structure, introduced "methylene" from the Ancient Greek μέθυ (methy, wine) + ὕλη (hulē, wood (patch of trees)) with the intention of highlighting its origins, "alcohol made from wood (substance)", but with Greek language errors: the Greek for "wood (substance)" is xylo- (Ancient Greek ξύλον (ksulon, wood)). The term "methyl" was derived in about 1840 by back-formation from "methylene", and was then applied to describe "methyl alcohol".

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methyl (plural methyls)

  1. (organic chemistry) The univalent hydrocarbon radical, CH₃, formally derived from methane by the loss of a proton.

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