isopentanol

English

Etymology

iso- +‎ pentanol

Noun

isopentanol (countable and uncountable, plural isopentanols)

1. (organic chemistry) Any isomer of n-pentanol, but especially amyl alcohol
   • 2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..

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