Definitions for formaldehyde

formaldehyde form·al·de·hyde

Spelling: [fawr-mal-duh-hahyd, fer-]
IPA: /fɔrˈmæl dəˌhaɪd, fər-/

Formaldehyde is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 25 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 869 anagrams from letters in formaldehyde (addeefhlmory).

Definitions for formaldehyde

noun

  1. a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.

Origin of formaldehyde

1870-75; form(ic) + aldehyde; modeled on German Formaldehyd

Examples for formaldehyde

formaldehyde is usually sold in solution of about forty per cent.

Damien Hirst suspended sharks and cows in formaldehyde, but Tracey Emin had “the bed.”

If formaldehyde is present, there will be a violet coloration.

In the formaldehyde vitrine, the shirtless dancer meets a fellow prey.

Strehlenert has proposed the addition of formaldehyde , but this is without result .

In the raids that accompanied the arrests, police also found jars filled with formaldehyde containing severed fingers.

formaldehyde has been used very extensively for this purpose.

Any idea why it tasted like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde?

However studies have found dangerous compounds like benzene and formaldehyde in inhaled or secondhand vapor.

formaldehyde is the other gas which is commonly used for disinfecting the air of a room.

Word Value for formaldehyde
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25

Words with friends

25

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