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Word Meanings - ACETALDEHYDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.

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  • ALDEHYDE
    A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation. Note: The aldehydes are intermediate between the alcohols and acids, and differ from the alcohols in having two less hydrogen atoms in the molecule, as
  • ACETIC
    Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation. Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.
  • PARALDEHYDE
    A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
  • PYROACETIC
    Pertaining to, and designating, a substance obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also pyroacetic ether, and formerly was called pyroacetic spirit.
  • ACETALDEHYDE
    Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
  • OXALDEHYDE
    See GLYOXAL
  • OXYACETIC
    Hydroxyacetic; designating an acid called also glycolic acid.
  • METALDEHYDE
    A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
  • FORMALDEHYDE
    A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.

 

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