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organochalcogen

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
organochalco-gen
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chemical compound or functional group containing carbon (“organic”) atoms and group 16/chalcogen atoms, but not necessarily exclusively, which are also organic compounds. (ie. carbon dioxide, amongst others, is inorganic, thus not an organochalogen)

noun

The class of such compounds.

Etymology

From organo- + chalcogen.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

organochalcogens (plural)

Questions

What does organochalcogen mean?
A chemical compound or functional group containing carbon (“organic”) atoms and group 16/chalcogen atoms, but not necessarily exclusively, which are also organic compounds. (ie. carbon dioxide, amongst others, is inorganic, thus not an organochalogen)
Where does organochalcogen come from?
From organo- + chalcogen.

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