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English

Etymology

Extracted from the word aromatic.

Prefix

ar-

  1. (deprecated template usage) (organic chemistry) Forming classification names for classes of organic compounds that contain a carbon skeleton and one or more aromatic rings.
    • 1900, Edgar Fahs Smith (English translator), R. Anschütz (German editor), Victor von Richter's Organic Chemistry: or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds, Third American Edition, Volume II, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., page 393:
      Potassium permanganate oxidizes ac-tetrahydronaphtylamine to o-hydrocinnam-carboxylic acid (p. 245); ar-tetrahydronaphthylamine, however, because of the oxidation of its amided benzene nucleus, is changed to adipic acid together with oxalic acid (B. 22, 767): []
    • 1919 January 10, C. J. West, abstract of G. Schroeter and K. Thomas, “Transformation of tetrahydronaphthalene (tetralin) in the animal body”; in American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts, Volume 13, Number 1, page 43:
      ar-Tetrahydro-α-carbamidonaphthalene, C11H14ON2, crystallized in square plates from alc., soften at 198° and melts at about 206° (quickly heated, at 212°).
    • 2006, Amit Arora, Aromatic Organic Chemistry, Discovery Publishing House (2007), ISBN 978-81-8356-202-7, page 173:
      1-Naphthylamine is reduced by sodium and isopentanol to ar-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine; the prefix ar- is the abbreviation of aromatic and indicates that the four hydrogen atoms are not in the ring containing the amino-group: []

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Aka-Bea

Prefix

ar-

  1. prefix for limbs or upright things

Old Irish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) ar

Prefix

ar-

  1. for-, fore-