vinylbenzene

Questions about vinylbenzene

What does vinylbenzene mean?

vinylbenzene means "a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene".

How many syllables are in vinylbenzene?

vinylbenzene has 4 syllables and divides as vi-nyl-ben-zene under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for vinylbenzene?

Close synonyms include styrene, cinnamene, phenylethylene. 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 vinylbenzene a common word?

vinylbenzene 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.