ethyleneoxide
ethyleneoxide noun: a colorless gas (at room temperature), C₂H₄O, used as a chemical intermediate and in the sterilization of medical equipment and supplies.
Noun
ethyleneoxide (plural ethyleneoxides)
- A colorless gas (at room temperature), C₂H₄O, used as a chemical intermediate and in the sterilization of medical equipment and supplies.
- It is found that the clouding process is closely related to the conformational equilibrium of the ethyleneoxide chains, and that this equilibrium depends on the properties of the free ethyleneoxide chain, the solvation of the chain, but also to a large extent on the effect that the ethyleneoxide...2000, Gunnar Karlström, “On the origin of the solution behavior of ethyleneoxide containing polymers”, in P. Alexandridis, B. Lindman, editor, Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Self-Assembly and...
- From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387
Forms of ethyleneoxide
| plural | ethyleneoxides |
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Origin of ethyleneoxide
From ethylene + oxide.
Words formed from ethyleneoxide
Questions about ethyleneoxide
- What does ethyleneoxide mean?
- Ethyleneoxide means a colorless gas (at room temperature), C₂H₄O, used as a chemical intermediate and in the sterilization of medical equipment and supplies.
- What part of speech is ethyleneoxide?
- Ethyleneoxide is a noun.
- What is the plural of ethyleneoxide?
- The plural of ethyleneoxide is ethyleneoxides.
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