amine

See also: Amine, aminé, and -amine

English

Etymology

From ammonia +‎ -ine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈ.miːn/, IPA^(key): /ˈæ.mɪn/, or IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.miːn/
• IPA^(key): /əˈ.miːn/ or IPA^(key): /ˈæ.miːn/

Noun

amine (plural amines)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A functional group formally derived from ammonia by replacing one, two or three hydrogen atoms with hydrocarbon or other radicals.
2. (organic chemistry) Any organic compound containing an amine functional group.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• amino-
• primary amine e.g. methylamine
• quaternary ammonium compound e.g.tetramethylammonium hydroxide

• secondary amine e.g. dimethylamine
• tertiary amine e.g. trimethylamine

Translations

inorganic chemistry: functional group formally derived from ammonia

• Finnish: amiini (fi)
• Hindi: तिक्ती (tiktī)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} aimín m
• Italian: ammina (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: amina f
• Romanian: amină (ro) f
• Spanish: amina (es) f

organic compound containing an amine functional group

• Catalan: amina f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 胺 (yue) (on¹, on³)

  Mandarin: 胺 (zh) (àn, ān)

• Czech: amin m
• Danish: amin c
• French: amine (fr) f
• German: Amin (de) n
• Hungarian: amin (hu)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} aimín m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ammina (it) f
• Japanese: アミン (amin)
• Korean: 아민 (amin)
• Maori: amine
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amin n

  Nynorsk: amin n

• Polish: amina (pl) f
• Romanian: amină (ro) f
• Spanish: amina (es) f

See also

• ammine

References

• “amine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• I mean, Maine, anime, animé, maine, manie, minae, minæ