formalin

formalin (countable and uncountable, plural formalins)

1. A solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant and to preserve biological specimens.
   • 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 20:

     If you failed to bathe it in the formalin solution every time, its flesh might cross the precipitous border into decay.

• formol

• informal

• IPA^(key): [ˈformalɪn]
• IPA^(key): [ˈformaliːn]

formalin m inan

1. formalin

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “formalin”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “formalin”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English formalin.

• IPA^(key): /fɔrˈma.lɪn/
• Rhymes: -lɪn
• Hyphenation: for‧ma‧lin

formalin

1. formalin (a solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant and to preserve biological specimens)