Definitions for dioxin

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dioxin di·ox·in

Spelling: [dahy-ok-sin]

IPA: /daɪˈɒk sɪn/

Dioxin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in dioxin (diinox).

Definitions for dioxin

noun

1. a general name for a family of chlorinated hydrocarbons, C 12 H 4 Cl 4 O 2 , typically used to refer to one isomer, TCDD, a by-product of pesticide manufacture: a toxic compound that is carcinogenic and teratogenic in certain animals.

Origin of dioxin

First recorded in 1965-70; di-¹ + ox- + -in²

Examples for dioxin

“dioxin” is the dirtiest of dirty words and this designation, like the chemical itself, does not degrade.

Unfortunately, the waste oil had a dioxin concentration 2,000 times higher than that in Agent Orange.

Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin during the campaign, most likely by allies of Moscow.

It is the connection of triclosan to dioxin that has appropriately raised the hackles of so many.