carbon disulfide

1. 1.

   a toxic colorless flammable liquid (CS2); used in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane and carbon tetrachloride and as a solvent for rubber

   Broadercompound

Questions about carbon disulfide

What does carbon disulfide mean?

carbon disulfide means "a toxic colorless flammable liquid (CS2); used in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane and carbon tetrachloride and as a solvent for rubber".

Is carbon disulfide a common word?

carbon disulfide 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.