NOUN
- the univalent group derived from arsine
- a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air
How To Use cacodyl In A Sentence
- More than a year afterward hypodermic injections of sodium cacodylate were attempted with apparent success, though the swellings continued. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
- There he distilled arsenic with potassium acetate to arrive at a cacodyl (also known as alkarsine or Cadet's liquid), a malodorous compound that the named after the Greek term for ‘stinky’ (kak dl s).
- For scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and semi-thin sections specimens were fixed in 2. 5% glutaraldehyde in a mixture of 0.4 M cacodylate buffer and seawater (1: 4: 5; 1120 mOsm) and post-fixed in 2% OsO PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- CEM cells, untreated or treated with anti-Fas (30 or 60 min), were fixed in 2. 5% cacodylate-buffered (0.2 M, pH 7.2) glutaraldehyde for 20 min at RT and post-fixed in 1% OsO PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Cacodylate is used as a buffer in some systems.
- Cocrystals were obtained from solutions containing 14% PEG 5000 monomethyl ether (w/v) (MME), 200 mM potassium acetate, 100 mM NaCl and 100 mM sodium cacodylate (pH 6.3). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- For electron microscopy membrane ultrastructure, cells were fixed in Karnovsky's fixative (1% paraformaldehyde/3% Glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M Sodium cacodylate buffer, pH 7.4) at room temperature for 30 min before being stored at 4°C. PLoS Biology: New Articles
- (Académie de Médecine, July 24, 1900) elaborates arsenic and iodine, which nourish the skin and hair; he found that the administration of sodium cacodylate to young women produced abundant growth of hair on head. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
- Berzelius coined the name kakodyl (later changed to cacodyl) for the dimethylarsinyl radical ((CH 3) 2 As) from the Greek kakodes (evil-smelling) and hyle (matter).
- The investigation and identification of cacodyl by Bunsen in 1848 was to mark the beginning of the era of organometallic chemistry.