carbonyl chloride
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carbonyl chloride (uncountable)
- (inorganic chemistry) A toxic gas, COCl2, used in the manufacture of plastics, pesticides etc, and once used as a chemical weapon.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 265:
- More of a French term. Phosgène. We prefer to call it carbonyl chloride. Less. . .disquieting, somehow.
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the compound COCl2
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