Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

octanolysis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oc-tanol-y-sis
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

alcoholysis using octanol

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"After hydrolysis, octanolysis and TMS-derivatization (Fig 2 ; 4a, 4′a ) the samples were subjected to GC/MS analysis."

Etymology

From octanol + -lysis.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: octanol

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does octanolysis mean?: alcoholysis using octanol
Where does octanolysis come from?: From octanol + -lysis.

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