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mercaptan Tweet Definition of mercaptan Like Definition of mercaptan on Facebook
noun 
  1. (chemistry) A class of organic compounds of sulphur, ( R1.S.R2 ); they tend to be foul-smelling. When R2 is a Hydrogen atom, they are termed thiols or thio-alcohols.
Etymology: corpus mercurium captans, ''substance capable of capturing (reacting with) mercury

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