dimethylarsenide

noun

a chemical compound or functional group containing arsenic connected to two methyl groups, -As(CH₃)₂.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

noundimethylarsenide (countable and uncountable, plural dimethylarsenides)

plural dimethylarsenides

  1. countableuncountablechemistrya chemical compound or functional group containing arsenic connected to two methyl groups, -As(CH₃)₂.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*dwi-
  4. Ancient Greekδῐ- (dĭ-)
  5. Latindi-
  6. Englishdi-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*médʰu
  8. Proto-Hellenic*métʰu
  9. Ancient Greekμέθυ (méthu)
  10. Proto-Indo-European*swel-der.?
  11. Ancient Greekῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)
  12. GermanMethy
  13. Englishmethyl
  14. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰl̥h₃enyom
  16. Proto-Indo-Iranian*ȷ́ʰr̥Hanyam
  17. Proto-Iranian*jr̥Hanyam
  18. Old Median*zaranyam
  19. Old Median*kā
  20. Old Median*zaraniyakā
  21. Middle Persian*zarnīk
  22. Classical Syriacܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā)
  23. Arabicالزَرْنِيخ (az-zarnīḵ)
  24. Medieval Greekἀρσενικόν (arsenikón)
  25. Latinarsenicum
  26. Middle Frencharsenic
  27. Middle Englisharsenik
  28. Englisharsenic
  29. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  30. Englisharsenide
  31. Englishdimethylarsenide

From di- + methyl + arsenide.

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