Usually means: Organic sulfur compound, strong odor.
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  1. mercaptan: Merriam-Webster
  2. mercaptan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mercaptan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mercaptan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mercaptan: Wordnik
  6. mercaptan: Wiktionary
  7. mercaptan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. mercaptan: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. mercaptan: Dictionary.com
  10. Mercaptan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Mercaptan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. mercaptan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Mercaptan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. mercaptan: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. mercaptan: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mercaptan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Mercaptan: Energy Dictionary

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  1. mercaptan: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. mercaptan: Medical dictionary

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  1. mercaptan: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. MERCAPTAN: Power Engineering

Definitions from Wiktionary (mercaptan)

noun:  (chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds of sulphur, ( R₁.S.R₂ ); they tend to be foul-smelling. When R₂ is a hydrogen atom, they are termed thiols or thioalcohols.

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