nitrogen trichloride

1. 1.

   a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour

   SynonymsAgene

   Broadertrichloride

   trade name

Questions about nitrogen trichloride

What does nitrogen trichloride mean?

nitrogen trichloride means "a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour".

What is another word for nitrogen trichloride?

Close synonyms include Agene. 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 nitrogen trichloride a common word?

nitrogen trichloride 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.