chemical irritant

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   a substance producing irritation

   Broadersubstance

   Narrowercapsaicingingerolpiperinisothiocyanate

Questions about chemical irritant

What does chemical irritant mean?

chemical irritant means "a substance producing irritation".

Is chemical irritant a common word?

chemical irritant 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.