Nonylphenol

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a family of closely related organic compounds, a subset of the alkylphenols, that are precursors to commercially important detergents.

    "Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels."

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"Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels."

Etymology

From nonyl + phenol.

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organic compound

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