a chemical reaction in which a butyl group is introduced into a compound, commonly used in manufacturing to create preservatives and other industrial chemicals.
From 'butyl' plus the suffix '-ation' (indicating a process or result), following standard chemical nomenclature for naming reactions and processes.
Butylation is ancient chemistry dressed in modern language—humans have preserved foods for millennia, but now we name the mechanism so we can engineer it. The word is the discovery.
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