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Aldehyde

noun

Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids.

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... considered to be living. To Le Dantec, the difference between the quick and the dead is of the same order as the difference which exists between two chemical compounds—for example, as that which exists between alcohol and an aldehyde, a liquid that has two less atoms of hydrogen in its composition. Modify your chemistry a little, add or subtract an atom or two, more or less, of this or that gas, and dead matter thrills into life, or living matter sinks to the inert. ...

— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Aldehyde" : ethanal, acrolein, propenal, organic compound, ethanal trimer, propanal, methanal, furfural, acetaldehyde