vinyl radical

1. 1.

   a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene

   Synonymsvinylvinyl group

   Broadergroup

Questions about vinyl radical

What does vinyl radical mean?

vinyl radical means "a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene".

What is another word for vinyl radical?

Close synonyms include vinyl, vinyl group. 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 radical a common word?

vinyl radical 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.