Definitions for glycol

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glycol gly·col

Spelling: [glahy-kawl, -kol]

IPA: /ˈglaɪ kɔl, -kɒl/

Glycol is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in glycol (cglloy).

Definitions for glycol

noun

1. Also called ethylene glycol, ethylene alcohol. a colorless, sweet liquid, C 2 H 6 O 2 , used chiefly as an automobile antifreeze and as a solvent.
2. Also called diol. any of a group of alcohols containing two hydroxyl groups.

Origin of glycol

First recorded in 1855-60; glyc(erin) + (alcoh)ol

Examples for glycol

On boiling with water, it decomposes into glycol and trimethylamine.

No glycollic acid, oxalic acid, glycol, or glycerol was produced.

glycol is heated in a distillery apparatus to 148 C., and a slow current of dry hydrochloric acid passed through it.

glycol, glī′kol, n. the type of a class of artificial compounds forming chemically a link between alcohol and glycerine.