metachloral

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Etymology edit

Noun edit

metachloral (uncountable)

(chemistry) A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “metachloral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

alcothermal, thermal coal