acrolein

See also: Acrolein

English

Etymology

From Latin acer (“sharp”) + oleō (“smell”, verb).

Noun

acrolein (countable and uncountable, plural acroleins)

1. (organic chemistry) A pungent, acrid, poisonous liquid aldehyde, CH₂=CH-CH=O, made by the destructive distillation of glycerol.

Synonyms

• acrylaldehyde
• propenal

Derived terms

Derived terms

• acrolein cyanohydrin
• acrolein dimer

• acrolein test
• metacrolein

Translations

a pungent, acrid, poisonous liquid aldehyde

• Finnish: akroleiini
• Portuguese: acroleína f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: acroleína (es) f

Anagrams

• Caroline, Coraline, Cornelia, Creolian, caroline, colinear, lonicera