English Explanatory Dictionary

organochalcogen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A chemical compound or functional group containing carbon (“organic”) atoms and group 16/chalcogen atoms, but not necessarily exclusively, which are also organic compounds. (ie. carbon dioxide, amongst others, is inorganic, thus not an organochalogen)
  2. The class of such compounds.

Word forms

organochalcogen organochalcogens

Etymology

From organo- + chalcogen.

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