different between dehydration vs irene

English

Etymology

de- +? hydration

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di?ha??d?e???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /diha??d?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

dehydration (countable and uncountable, plural dehydrations)

1. The act or process of removing water from something.
2. The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

Synonyms

• hypohydration

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??i?n/

Noun

irene (plural irenes)

1. (organic chemistry) The hydrocarbon formed by dehydration of an irone.
   • 1952, The Terpenes, addenda to volumes 1 and 2, page 507:

     The configurations around the double bond in the side chain are based on considerations of the Raman spectra, dielectric constants, etc., and on comparatively small differences in reactivity; for example, neo-?-irone is converted into irene less readily than ?-irone, but forms an oxime more rapidly; [...]

   • 1964, Samuel Coffey, E. H. Rodd, Martin Frederick Ansell, Chemistry of Carbon Compounds: Alicyclic Compounds, page 177:

     Ruzicka and his co-workers showed that the hydrocarbon irene, obtained on reduction of irone with red phosphorus/iodine, had the structure shown and this was confirmed by synthesis [...]

Translations

Anagrams

• ERNIE, Ernie

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

irene m

1. definite plural of ire