carbonyl group

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   the bivalent radical CO

   Broadergroup

Questions about carbonyl group

What does carbonyl group mean?

carbonyl group means "the bivalent radical CO".

Is carbonyl group a common word?

carbonyl group 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.