diphenylguanidine

noun

An odorless, whitish, crystalline powder, C₁₃H₁₃N₃, commonly used in the vulcanization of rubbers.

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Meanings

noundiphenylguanidine (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryAn odorless, whitish, crystalline powder, C₁₃H₁₃N₃, commonly used in the vulcanization of rubbers.

    Slightly more than this quantity of diphenylguanidine was required, and about ten times as much triethylamine.

    1947, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, page 245
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    The ring hydroxylation of diphenylguanidine occurred to give the metabolite (2) while introduction of fluorine substituents blocked this hydroxylation […]

    1996, D. R. Hawkins, Biotransformations, page 1

Origin

From diphenyl + guanidine.

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