Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phthalocyanine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English

Syllables: ph-thalo-cya-nine
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of macrocyclic compounds having a structure similar to that of porphyrin; they are blue/green pigments that are used in plastics and enamels.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From phthalimide + cyanine.

Usage

Inflected Forms

phthalocyanines (plural)

Derived Forms

metallophthalocyanine polyphthalocyanine

Phrases

copper phthalocyanine

Frequently Paired Words

phthalocyaninate sulfophthalocyanine superphthalocyanine subphthalocyanine

Questions

What does phthalocyanine mean?: Any of a family of macrocyclic compounds having a structure similar to that of porphyrin; they are blue/green pigments that are used in plastics and enamels.
Where does phthalocyanine come from?: From phthalimide + cyanine.

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