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Aldehyde

//ˈæl.dɪ.haɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a large class of reactive organic compounds (R·CHO) having a carbonyl functional group attached to one hydrocarbon radical and a hydrogen atom.

    "The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes."

  2. 2
    any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aldehyd, a contraction of the Latin al(cohol) dehyd(rogenātum).

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