acrolein

See also: Acrolein

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From Latin acer (“sharp”) + oleō (“smell”, verb).

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acrolein (countable and uncountable, plural acroleins)

  1. (organic chemistry) A pungent, acrid, poisonous liquid aldehyde, CH2=CH-CH=O, made by the destructive distillation of glycerol.

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