ISOCYANATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does isocyanate mean? 

• ISOCYANATE (noun)
  The noun ISOCYANATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt or ester of isocyanic acid

  Familiarity information: ISOCYANATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISOCYANATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester of isocyanic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("isocyanate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

 Context examples 

Intracellular metabolism of this agent also releases methyl isocyanate which inhibits O6-alkyl-guanine transferase, an enzyme involved with DNA repair.

(Laromustine, NCI Thesaurus)

The new results from ALMA show that methyl isocyanate gas surrounds each of these young stars.

(ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars, ESO)

In vivo, caracemide contributes to the formation of the neurotoxin methyl isocyanate; this effect, along with the agent's acetylcholinesterase activity, may be responsible for the severe central nervous system toxicity observed in clinical trials.

(Caracemide, NCI Thesaurus)

Each team identified and isolated the signatures of the complex organic molecule methyl isocyanate.

(ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars, ESO)

Two teams of astronomers, one from INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri in Florence, Italy and the second from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and from University College London, United Kingdom, have harnessed the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to detect the prebiotic complex organic molecule methyl isocyanate in the multiple star system IRAS 16293-2422.

(ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars, ESO)