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trifluoroacetic

trifluoroacetic noun: the univalent radical derived from acetic by replacing every hydrogen atom with one of fluorine.

Noun

trifluoroacetic (uncountable)

  1. (especially, in-compounds) The univalent radical derived from acetic by replacing every hydrogen atom with one of fluorine

Words formed from trifluoroacetic

Questions about trifluoroacetic

What does trifluoroacetic mean?
Trifluoroacetic means the univalent radical derived from acetic by replacing every hydrogen atom with one of fluorine.
What part of speech is trifluoroacetic?
Trifluoroacetic is a noun.

Words near trifluoroacetic in the dictionary

  1. trifluorides
  2. trifluoro
  3. trifluoroacetamide
  4. trifluoroacetate
  5. trifluoroacetates
  6. trifluoroacetic
  7. trifluoroacetic acid
  8. trifluoroacetoxy
  9. trifluoroacetoxylation
  10. trifluoroacetoxylations
  11. trifluoroacetoxys

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