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Formaldehyde

//fɔː(ɹ)ˈmældɪhaɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin. countable, uncountable

    "The shark chosen to replace the original was injected with 224 gallons of formaldehyde, ten times the amount used on the first shark and in a stronger concentration."

  2. 2
    a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol wordnet

Etymology

From form(yl) + aldehyde.

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