metacrolein

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ acrolein

Noun

metacrolein (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “metacrolein”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

• chemspider

Anagrams

• Trincomalee, ectromelian