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pinacolone

pinacolone noun: a ketone with a peppermint odour, used mainly in the synthesis of triazolylpinacolone to produce the fungicide triadimefon and in synthesis of the herbicide metribuzin.

Noun

pinacolone (countable and uncountable, plural pinacolones)

  1. A ketone with a peppermint odour, used mainly in the synthesis of triazolylpinacolone to produce the fungicide triadimefon and in synthesis of the herbicide metribuzin.

pinacolone meaning in Tamil

pinacolone in Tamil

பினக்கொலோன்

Forms of pinacolone

pluralpinacolones

Origin of pinacolone

From pinacol + -one?

Questions about pinacolone

What does pinacolone mean?
Pinacolone means a ketone with a peppermint odour, used mainly in the synthesis of triazolylpinacolone to produce the fungicide triadimefon and in synthesis of the herbicide metribuzin.
What is pinacolone in Tamil?
Pinacolone in Tamil is பினக்கொலோன். See Pinacolone meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pinacolone?
Pinacolone is a noun.
What is the plural of pinacolone?
The plural of pinacolone is pinacolones.

Words near pinacolone in the dictionary

  1. pinacolborane
  2. pinacolboranes
  3. pinacolic
  4. pinacolin
  5. pinacolins
  6. pinacolone
  7. pinacolones
  8. pinacols
  9. pinacolyl
  10. pinacolyls
  11. pinacone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinacolone (page history and authors); pinacolone (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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