Word Meanings - ACETALDEHYDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.

ALDEHYDE
A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation. Note: The aldehydes are intermediate between the alcohols and acids, and differ from the alcohols in having two less hydrogen atoms in the molecule, as
ACETIC
Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation. Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.
PARALDEHYDE
A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
PYROACETIC
Pertaining to, and designating, a substance obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also pyroacetic ether, and formerly was called pyroacetic spirit.
ACETALDEHYDE
Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
OXALDEHYDE
See GLYOXAL
OXYACETIC
Hydroxyacetic; designating an acid called also glycolic acid.
METALDEHYDE
A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
FORMALDEHYDE
A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.