urethane
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English
Etymology
From French uréthane, coined (1833) by Jean Baptiste Dumas.
Noun
urethane (countable and uncountable, plural urethanes)
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) A white crystalline organic compound, ethyl-carbamate, NH2COOC2H5, used in the synthesis of other organic compounds.
- (organic chemistry, countable) Any compound consisting of this general structure.
- (informal) Polyurethane.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 161:
- He doesn’t remember polishing off the bottle of slivovitz that stands empty on the scratched urethane surface of the oak-veneer tabletop, next to the wing chair.