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Formaldehyde   Listen
noun
Formaldehyde  n.  (Chem.) A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Formaldehyde" Quotes from Famous Books



... that, if some lethal vapour of highly preservative properties—such as formaldehyde, for instance—could be shed into the atmosphere of this apartment, the entire and complete collection of books and bookworms would be well worth preserving, for the enlightenment of posterity, as a sort of anthropological ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman

... sewer to their house, and that the drainage of fifteen years was in a cesspool under it? How could they know that the pale-blue milk that they bought around the corner was watered, and doctored with formaldehyde besides? When the children were not well at home, Teta Elzbieta would gather herbs and cure them; now she was obliged to go to the drugstore and buy extracts—and how was she to know that they were ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair



Words linked to "Formaldehyde" :   urea-formaldehyde resin, polyvinyl-formaldehyde



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