aldehyde

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈæl.dɪ.haɪd/

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aldehyde (plural aldehydes)

1. (organic chemistry) 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.
   • 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 180:

     The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes.

• formaldehyde (R = H)
• acetaldehyde (R = CH₃)
• benzaldehyde (R = C₆H₅)

• ketone

• headedly

Borrowed from German Aldehyd.

• IPA^(key): /ɑldəˈɦidə/

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• Hyphenation: al‧de‧hy‧de

aldehyde m (plural aldehyden)

1. (organic chemistry) aldehyde

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