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nonylphenols

nonylphenols is the plural of nonylphenol.

Meaning of nonylphenol

Noun

nonylphenol (plural nonylphenols)

  1. Any of a family of closely related organic compounds, a subset of the alkylphenols, that are precursors to commercially important detergents.
    • 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 New York Times

Questions about nonylphenols

What is nonylphenols the plural of?
Nonylphenols is the plural of nonylphenol.

Words near nonylphenols in the dictionary

  1. nonylenic
  2. nonylglucoside
  3. nonylglucosides
  4. nonylic
  5. nonylphenol
  6. nonylphenols
  7. nonyls
  8. nonymity
  9. nonymous
  10. nonyne
  11. nonynes

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