ethanal trimer

1. 1.

   a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent

   Synonymsparaldehyde

   Broaderaldehyde

Questions about ethanal trimer

What does ethanal trimer mean?

ethanal trimer means "a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent".

What is another word for ethanal trimer?

Close synonyms include paraldehyde. 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 ethanal trimer a common word?

ethanal trimer 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.