| alkylmercury compounds | Organic mercury compounds in which the mercury is attached to an alkyl group. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| alkylmercury lyase | <enzyme> From bacteria; catalyses the protonolysis of the carbon-mercury bond to give hydrocarbon and mercury as a mercaptide Registry number: EC 4.99.1.2 Synonym: organomercury lyase, organomercurial lyase, phenylmercury lyase (26 Jun 1999) |
| alkylsulfatase | <enzyme> Induced by sodium hexan-1-yl sulfate Registry number: EC 3.1.6.- Synonym: alkylsulfohydrolase, alkylsulphohydrolase (26 Jun 1999) |
| alkyne | <chemistry> An organic molecule containing carbon and hydrogen atoms in straight or branched chains, where at least one carbon-carbon bond is a triple bond. One of three major classes of aliphatic hydrocarbons. (13 Nov 1997) |
| alkynes | Acyclic hydrocarbons with one triple bond of the general formula cn-h2n-2. (12 Dec 1998) |