The tertiary amine (CH3)3N; a colourless gas with a fishy smell that is a product of animal and vegetable decomposition.(noun)
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Use "trimethylamine" in a sentence
"It consists in submitting to the action of heat the hydrochlorate of trimethylamine, which is obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of potash of beets."
"The whole plant is sprinkled over with the white, pellucid meal, and contains much "trimethylamine," together with osmazome, and nitrate of potash; also it gives off free ammonia."
"The problem with TMAO and urea is that once the fish are killed, bacteria and fish enzymes convert the former into stinky TMA trimethylamine and the latter into kitchen-cleanser ammonia."