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methanone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

From methane + -one.

methanones (plural)

What does methanone mean?: formaldehyde considered as the simplest ketone - R₂C=O
Where does methanone come from?: From methane + -one.

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