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.