Word.ws English Dictionary

carbowax

carbowax noun: a solution of polyethylene glycol.

Noun

carbowax (countable and uncountable, plural carbowaxes)

  1. A solution of polyethylene glycol
    • The amount of nitrogen in these enzyme extracts increased at first with increasing carbowax concentration in the extracting medium to reach a maximum at the carbowax concentration of 5 gm per 100 ml.1967, South African journal of agricultural science

Forms of carbowax

pluralcarbowaxes

Origin of carbowax

From a trademark.

Questions about carbowax

What does carbowax mean?
Carbowax means a solution of polyethylene glycol.
What part of speech is carbowax?
Carbowax is a noun.
What is the plural of carbowax?
The plural of carbowax is carbowaxes.

Words near carbowax in the dictionary

  1. carbothioamide
  2. carbothioamides
  3. carbovinate
  4. carbovinates
  5. carbovir
  6. carbowax
  7. carbowaxes
  8. carboxaldehyde
  9. carboxaldehydes
  10. carboxamidate
  11. carboxamidated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: carbowax (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “carbowax.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/carbowax. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.