acrolein

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

/ˈækɹəliːn/ /əˈkɹəʊliɪn/ /ˈækɹəˌlin/ /əˈkɹoʊliɪn/

acrolein acroleins

Borrowed from German Acrolein, from Latin acer (“sharp”) + oleō (“smell”, verb) + -in.

acrylaldehyde propenal

acrolein cyanohydrin acrolein dimer acrolein test acryl disacryl metacrolein thioacrolein

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