aldehyde
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Borrowed from German Aldehyd, a contraction of the Latin al(cohol) dehyd(rogenātum).
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aldehyde (plural aldehydes)
- (organic chemistry) Any of a large class of reactive organic compounds (R·CHO) having a carbonyl functional group attached to one hydrocarbon radical and a hydrogen atom.
- 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 180:
- The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes.
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Related terms edit
- formaldehyde (R = H)
- acetaldehyde (R = CH3)
- benzaldehyde (R = C6H5)
Translations edit
organic compound of the general formula R·CHO
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aldehyde m (plural aldehyden)