Definition of "nitriles" [nitriles]

• Plural form of nitrile. (noun)

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• "Members of the crucifer family are excellent sources of isothiocyanates, indoles, thiocyanates, and nitriles, chemicals that may protect against some cancers."
• "He used the agents to prepare and study the more exotic alcohols, ketones, keto-esters, nitriles and terpene compounds and he developed a method for the synthesis of fulvenes."
• "During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols."