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BEMT

BEMT is the initialism of bemotrizinol.

Meaning of bemotrizinol

Noun

bemotrizinol (uncountable)

  1. (INN) An oil-soluble organic compound that is an active ingredient in sunscreens to absorb the sun's ultraviolet rays.
    • For the first time in the 21st century, the United States has approved a new sunscreen ingredient. Well, new to us. It’s called bemotrizinol, also known as BEMT, and it’s been available in Europe and Asia for years. But the peculiar way that sunscreen is regulated in the United States — as an...2026 June 9, Dylan Scott, “The US just got its first new sunscreen in almost 30 years. America’s sunscreens have been stuck in the past. With BEMT, that’s finally changing”, in Vox
    Synonyms:
    BEMT

Questions about BEMT

What is BEMT the initialism of?
BEMT is the initialism of bemotrizinol.

Words near BEMT in the dictionary

  1. Bemposa
  2. Bempton
  3. Bemrose
  4. Bemroses
  5. BEMs
  6. BEMT
  7. BEMU
  8. bemud
  9. bemudded
  10. bemuddied
  11. bemuddies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BEMT (page history and authors); bemotrizinol (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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