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methanethiol
(redirected from Methylmercaptan)

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methanethiol
1. a flammable gas used in the manufacture of pesticides and fungicides. Called also methyl mercaptan.
2. an inflammable gas with the odor of rotten cabbage. Produced in the intestine by the actions of anaerobic bacteria on albumin.
3. a toxic metabolite of methionine that induces hepatic coma and encephalopathy.
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First a yellow color is immediately formed, followed by a greenish shade, and under the influence of oxygen and light changing to bluish, which in turn changes finally into the purple dye, while liberating garlic-like smelling volatile products, which have been determined by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy as methylmercaptan and dimethyl-disulfide (Shiomi et al.
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