What does "phthalocyanine" mean?

Any of a family of macrocyclic compounds having a structure similar to that of porphyrin; they are blue/green pigments that are used in plastics and enamels.

Phthalocyanine

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1
Any of a family of macrocyclic compounds having a structure similar to that of porphyrin; they are blue/green pigments that are used in plastics and enamels. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From phthalimide + cyanine.

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copper phthalocyanine

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