FORMALDEHYDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does formaldehyde mean? 

• FORMALDEHYDE (noun)
  The noun FORMALDEHYDE has 1 sense:

1. a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol

  Familiarity information: FORMALDEHYDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORMALDEHYDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

formaldehyde; methanal

Hypernyms ("formaldehyde" is a kind of...):

aldehyde (any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids)

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

 Context examples 

The researchers will now work on developed modifications for other common household formaldehyde, which is present in glues, woodsmoke, and furniture.

(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A saturated solution of formaldehyde, water, and typically another agent, most commonly methanol.

(Formaldehyde Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

Sources of indoor pollution include: • Mold and pollen • Tobacco smoke • Household products and pesticides • Gases such as radon and carbon monoxide • Materials used in the building such as asbestos, formaldehyde and lead

(Indoor Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency)

The hippurate salt form of methenamine, a prodrug and inactive weak base that slowly hydrolyzes in acidic urine to ammonia and the effective, urinary tract antiseptic formaldehyde.

(Methenamine Hippurate, NCI Thesaurus)

First, a sample is treated with formaldehyde to form DNA-protein crosslinks, followed by sample lysis and sonication.

(FAIRE-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)

Being exposed to formaldehyde may increase the risk of developing leukemia and brain cancer.

(Formaldehyde, NCI Dictionary)

In the body methenamine is converted to formaldehyde, a nonspecific bactericidal agent.

(Methenamine, NCI Thesaurus)

They identified three DNA-damaging compounds, formaldehyde, acrolein and methylglyoxal, whose levels increased in the saliva after vaping.

(Using Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage DNA, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A complex mixture of dusts, vapors and gases that contains various known or potential carcinogens, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, nitrosamines, coal tar and coal tar pitch, cadmium, benzene and arsenic compounds.

(Coke Oven Emission, NCI Thesaurus)

Among them are known or suspected toxicants, carcinogens and respiratory irritants, including nicotine, ammonia, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, acrolein, hydrogen cyanide, phenol, nitrogen oxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, N-Nitrosamines and radionuclides.

(Environmental tobacco smoke, NCI Thesaurus)