a flammable, gaseous synthetic compound whose molecule contains a ring of three carbon atoms. It has some use as a general anesthetic.
The simplest compound is cyclopropane , but its non-tetrahedral bond angles within the ring severely strain it, and it is very unstable.
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This mixture of cyclopropane , with its faintly sweet petrol-like smell, and oxygen, which has no smell, seeped silently out of the end of the tube just beneath the boy's nose.
The simplest compound is cyclopropane , but its non-tetrahedral bond angles within the ring severely strain it, and it is very unstable.
I then used the moles of cyclopropane in the lipids and the lipid solubility coefficient to calculate body lipid mass.
The 1930s saw the introduction of new inhalational agents, notably cyclopropane , so potent that it could be given with a high percentage of oxygen, and as a result valuable for the developing surgery for lung disease.
The iodomethyl zinc iodide reacts with an alkene to give a cyclopropane .
