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pinacolone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pina-colone
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A ketone with a peppermint odour, used mainly in the synthesis of triazolylpinacolone to produce the fungicide triadimefon and in synthesis of the herbicide metribuzin.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From pinacol + -one?

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

pinacolones (plural)

Questions

What does pinacolone mean?
A ketone with a peppermint odour, used mainly in the synthesis of triazolylpinacolone to produce the fungicide triadimefon and in synthesis of the herbicide metribuzin.
Where does pinacolone come from?
From pinacol + -one?

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