formaldehyde

About 1.82 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.

Similar words

methanal urea melamine phenol formalin resorcinol condensates formol methyl aldehyde formic aldehyde

Often followed by

and is in resins solution resin to or gas

Word family

formaldehydes