Definition of "trimethylamine" []

• 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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• "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."