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Webster 1913 Edition

Oxalyl

Ox′a-lyl

,

Noun.

[

Oxal

ic +

-yl

.]

(Chem.)

(a)

A hydrocarbon radical (

C2O2

) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.

(b)

An old name for

carbonyl

.

(c)

An old name for

carboxyl

.