chloromethylation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any reaction that introduces a chloromethyl group into a compound
Etymology
Etymology tree English chloromethyl Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English chloromethylation From chloromethyl + -ation.