picryl etymology

English word picryl comes from English oxygen, English picric (Designating a type of bitter yellow acid.)

Detailed word origin of picryl

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
oxygen English (eng) (countable) An atom of this element.. (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help him or her to breathe.. A chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994.. Molecular oxygen (O2), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature.
picric English (eng) Designating a type of bitter yellow acid.
picryl English (eng) (organic chemistry) The univalent radical, analogous to phenyl, derived from picric acid.

Words with the same origin as picryl

Descendants of oxygen
Cwm Silicon Silicon Glen Silicon Valley aminoanthraquinone anoxic carbon chyazic acid disiloxane halon hydrogen hydrogode ketoxime oligosiloxane oxime pentasiloxane phlorone polysilicon quinoid quinone silico- silicoflagellate silicon photonics sodium thucholite trisiloxane
Descendants of picric
picramic picrate