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The bivalent group C＝O.

See methanol.

A metal compound, such as Ni(CO)4, containing the CO group.

An alcohol derived from methanol.

(organic chemistry) In organic chemistry, a divalent functional group, (-CO-), characteristic of aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, amides, carboxylic acid anhydrides, carbonyl halides, esters and others.

The compound methanol.

(inorganic chemistry) Any compound of a metal with carbon monoxide, such as nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)₄.

Any substituted methanol.

The radical (CO)´´, occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.

Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; - also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.

A compound containing metal combined with carbon monoxide

Relating to or containing the carbonyl group