vinyl cyanide

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   a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene

   Synonymspropenonitrileacrylonitrile

   Broadernitrile

Questions about vinyl cyanide

What does vinyl cyanide mean?

vinyl cyanide means "a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene".

What is another word for vinyl cyanide?

Close synonyms include propenonitrile, acrylonitrile. 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 vinyl cyanide a common word?

vinyl cyanide 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.