carbonyl chloride en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A toxic gas, COCl₂, used in the manufacture of plastics, pesticides etc, and once used as a chemical weapon.
More of a French term. Phosgène. We prefer to call it carbonyl chloride. Less. . .disquieting, somehow.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 265:
Synonyms
Translations (13)
cmn 碳酰氯 (the compound COCl2) · fi karbonyylikloridi (the compound COCl2) · ky фосген (the compound COCl2) · es fosgeno (the compound COCl2) · hu foszgén (the compound COCl2) · cmn 碳醯氯 (the compound COCl2) · ca fosgen (the compound COCl2) · it ossicloruro di carbonio (the compound COCl2) · de Carbonylchlorid (the compound COCl2) · bg фосген (the compound COCl2) · hu karbonil-klorid (the compound COCl2) · kk фосген (the compound COCl2) · gl fósxeno (the compound COCl2)