chloroacetophenone

Questions about chloroacetophenone

What does chloroacetophenone mean?

chloroacetophenone means "a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer".

How many syllables are in chloroacetophenone?

chloroacetophenone has 7 syllables and divides as chlo-ro-a-ce-to-phe-none under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chloroacetophenone?

Close synonyms include CN gas. 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 chloroacetophenone a common word?

chloroacetophenone 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.