trichloracetic acid

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   a strong acid made by chlorinating acetic acid

   Synonymstrichloroacetic acid

   Broaderacetic acid

Questions about trichloracetic acid

What does trichloracetic acid mean?

trichloracetic acid means "a strong acid made by chlorinating acetic acid".

What is another word for trichloracetic acid?

Close synonyms include trichloroacetic acid. 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 trichloracetic acid a common word?

trichloracetic acid 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.