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Webster 1913 Edition
Metaldehyde
Me-tal′de-hyde
,Noun.
[Pref.
met-
+ aldehyde
.] (Chem.)
A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
Definition 2024
metaldehyde
metaldehyde
English
Noun
metaldehyde (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A cyclic tetramer of acetaldehyde, commonly used as a molluscicide.
Translations
tetramer of acetaldehyde
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