formaldehyde

See also formaldéhyde

English

Wikipedia

Noun

formaldehyde (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) The simplest aldehyde, H-CHO, a colourless gas having many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formalin.

Synonyms

• methanal the IUPAC name
• E240 when used as a preservative

Translations

organic compound

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甲醛 (cmn) (jiǎquán)

• Czech: formaldehyd (cs) m
• Danish: formaldehyd (da) c
• Dutch: formaldehyde (nl)
• Esperanto: formaldehido (eo)
• Finnish: formaldehydi (fi)
• French: formaldéhyde (fr) m
• German: Formaldehyd (de) m
• Greek: φορμαλδεΰδη (el) (formaldeÿ́di) f

• Italian: formaldeide (it)
• Japanese: ホルムアルデヒド (ja) (horumuarudehido)
• Latvian: formaldehīds (lv) m
• Lithuanian: formaldehidas (lt)
• Polish: aldehyd mrówkowy (pl) m, formaldehyd (pl) m, metanal (pl) m
• Russian: формальдегид (ru) (formalʹdɛgíd) m
• Spanish: formaldehído (es)
• Swedish: formaldehyd (sv) c
• Vietnamese: fomanđêhít (vi)

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• Bulgarian: Формалдехид
• Estonian: formaldehüüd
• Hebrew: פורמלין
• Indonesian: formaldehida
• Korean: 폼알데하이드
• Latin: methanal
• Lithuanian: formaldehidas

• Norwegian: formaldehyd
• Persian: فرمالدهید
• Portuguese: metanal
• Sundanese: formaldehida
• Swedish: formaldehyd
• Thai: ฟอร์มาลดีไฮด์