carbonyl : Idioms & Phrases

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Carbonyl chloride

  • (Chem.), a colorless gas, COCl2, of offensive odor, and easily condensable to liquid. It is formed from chlorine and carbon monoxide, under the influence of light, and hence has been called phosgene gas; called also carbon oxychloride.
Webster 1913

carbonyl group

  • noun the bivalent radical CO
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