Word.ws English Dictionary

phthalocyanin

phthalocyanin is the alternative form of phthalocyanine.

Meaning of phthalocyanine

Noun

phthalocyanine (countable and uncountable, plural phthalocyanines)

  1. Any of a family of macrocyclic compounds having a structure similar to that of porphyrin; they are blue/green pigments that are used in plastics and enamels.

Forms of phthalocyanin

pluralphthalocyanins

Questions about phthalocyanin

What is phthalocyanin the alternative form of?
Phthalocyanin is the alternative form of phthalocyanine.

Words near phthalocyanin in the dictionary

  1. phthalins
  2. phthalo
  3. phthalo blue
  4. phthalo blues
  5. phthalo green
  6. phthalocyanin
  7. phthalocyaninate
  8. phthalocyaninates
  9. phthalocyanine
  10. phthalocyanines
  11. phthalocyanins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phthalocyanin (page history and authors); phthalocyanine (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: “phthalocyanin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phthalocyanin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.