acetonitrile
noun
ace·to·ni·trile
ə-ˌsē-tō-ˈnī-trəl 
ˌa-sə-tō-,
-ˌtrī(-ə)l
: the colorless liquid nitrile CH3CN of acetic acid used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent
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Back then, American Cyanamid in Waggaman — now Cornerstone Chemicals — had been disposing of more than 11 million pounds of the noxious solvent acetonitrile down injection wells.
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Mark Schleifstein, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2012
To identify the unique neurotoxin, the biologists cut out the venom ducts from several snails, froze them, pulverized them, and then extracted the peptides from the pulp with a mixture of water and the solvent acetonitrile.
—Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 11 July 2007
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Mark Schleifstein, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2012
To identify the unique neurotoxin, the biologists cut out the venom ducts from several snails, froze them, pulverized them, and then extracted the peptides from the pulp with a mixture of water and the solvent acetonitrile.
—Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 11 July 2007
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acetonitrile
noun
ace·to·ni·trile
ˌas-ə-tō-ˈnī-trəl
ə-ˈsēt-ō-
-ˌtrēl
ə-ˈsēt-ō-
-ˌtrēl
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