Acetylcysteine


a substance, c 5 h 9 no 3 s, used in solution as an inhalant to dissolve mucus in the treatment of chronic bronchitis, asthma, and emphysema and also used as an antidote in acetaminophen poisoning.

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  • Acetylene

    a colorless gas, c 2 h 2 , having an etherlike odor, produced usually by the action of water on calcium carbide or by pyrolysis of natural gas: used especially in metal cutting and welding, as an illuminant, and in organic synthesis. historical examples they had put a table at the back of this cave, […]

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    any compound derived from acetylene by the replacement of one or both of its hydrogen atoms by a metal, as silver acetylide, ag 2 cl 2 . noun any of a cl-ss of carbides in which the carbon is present as a diatomic divalent ion (c22–). they are formally derivatives of acetylene

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