carbon tetrachloride

1. 1.

   a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined

   Synonymscarbon tettetrachloromethaneperchloromethane

   Broadersolventtetrachloride

Questions about carbon tetrachloride

What does carbon tetrachloride mean?

carbon tetrachloride means "a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined".

What is another word for carbon tetrachloride?

Close synonyms include carbon tet, tetrachloromethane, perchloromethane. 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 carbon tetrachloride a common word?

carbon tetrachloride 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.