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ethoxylate

ethoxylate verb: to react with ethylene oxide.

Verb

ethoxylate (third-person singular simple present ethoxylates, present participle ethoxylating, simple past and past participle ethoxylated)

  1. To react with ethylene oxide

Noun

ethoxylate (plural ethoxylates)

  1. The product of such a reaction.
    • The most important and commonly used APEs are nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), which account for 80% of the APE market.2008, Uri Zoller, Paul Sosis, editors, Handbook of Detergents, Part F: Production (Surfactant Science Series), CRC Press, →ISBN, page 66
    • Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.2009 February 26, Julie Scelfo, “When It Comes to Detergents, What’s the Least Irresponsible Choice?”, in The New York Times

Forms of ethoxylate

Verb
third-person singular presentethoxylates
present participleethoxylating
past participleethoxylated
pastethoxylated
Noun
pluralethoxylates

Origin of ethoxylate

From ethoxyl + -ate.

Words formed from ethoxylate

Questions about ethoxylate

What does ethoxylate mean?
Ethoxylate means to react with ethylene oxide.
What part of speech is ethoxylate?
Ethoxylate can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of ethoxylate?
The past tense of ethoxylate is ethoxylated.

Words near ethoxylate in the dictionary

  1. ethoxyethanol
  2. ethoxyethene
  3. ethoxyethyl
  4. ethoxyethyls
  5. ethoxyl
  6. ethoxylate
  7. ethoxylated
  8. ethoxylates
  9. ethoxylating
  10. ethoxylation
  11. ethoxylations

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