acetyl chloride

1. 1.

   colorless liquid acyl chloride (CH3COCl) that has a pungent odor

   Synonymsethanoyl chloride

   Broaderacyl halide

Questions about acetyl chloride

What does acetyl chloride mean?

acetyl chloride means "colorless liquid acyl chloride (CH3COCl) that has a pungent odor".

What is another word for acetyl chloride?

Close synonyms include ethanoyl chloride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acetyl chloride a common word?

acetyl chloride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.