acetaldehyde

See also: acétaldéhyde

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acetaldehyde

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Etymology

From acet- +‎ aldehyde.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈtæl.dəˌhaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

acetaldehyde (countable and uncountable, plural acetaldehydes)

2. (organic chemistry) A colourless organic compound, CH₃CHO, occurring widely in nature and being produced on a large scale in industry.

   Synonyms: acetic aldehyde, ethanal

   • 2025 May 20, Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, quoting Timothy Stockwell, “Is There a Least Bad Alcohol?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 May 2025:

     When you have a drink, your body turns the ethanol that’s present in the alcoholic beverage into a “really nasty substance” called acetaldehyde, which can damage your DNA, said Timothy Stockwell, an alcohol researcher at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Derived terms

• acetaldehydemia
• paracetaldehyde
• phenylacetaldehyde
• trichloroacetaldehyde

Translations

the organic compound CH₃CHO

Catalan: acetaldehid m Chinese: Cantonese: 乙醛 (jyut3 cyun4), 醋醛 (cou3 cyun4) Mandarin: 乙醛 (zh) (yǐquán), 醋醛 (zh) (cùquán) Czech: acetaldehyd (cs) m Esperanto: acetaldehido Finnish: asetaldehydi (fi) French: acétaldéhyde (fr) m, éthanal (fr) m German: Acetaldehyd (de) m Greek: ακεταλδεΰδη (el) f (aketaldeÿ́di) Hungarian: acetaldehid (hu) Irish: aicéataildéad m Italian: acetaldeide (it) f Japanese: アセトアルデヒド ((asetoarudehido)) Kazakh: ацетальдегид (asetaldegid) Kyrgyz: ацетальдегид (atsetaldegid) Persian: استالدهید (asetâldehid) Polish: acetaldehyd (pl) m, aldehyd octowy (pl) m Portuguese: acetaldeído m, etanal (pt) m Spanish: acetaldehído (es) m Swedish: etanal (sv) c Ukrainian: етана́ль m (etanálʹ), о́цтовий альдегі́д m (óctovyj alʹdehíd)