formaldehyde

See also: formaldéhyde

English

Structure diagram of formaldehyde

Etymology

From form(yl) +‎ aldehyde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈmældɪhaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: for‧mal‧de‧hyde

Noun

formaldehyde (countable and uncountable, plural formaldehydes)

1. (organic chemistry) The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.
   • 2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:

     The shark chosen to replace the original was injected with 224 gallons of formaldehyde, ten times the amount used on the first shark and in a stronger concentration.

   • 2024 March 19, Maeve McClenaghan, “Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Back in 2006, Hirst found himself at the centre of a different debate arising out of the need to refurbish or update formaldehyde pieces that are prone to decay. It related to the piece that made him famous: the formaldehyde shark The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), which had been bought by the US hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen for $8m.

Synonyms

• (HCHO): E240 (when used as a preservative), methanal (IUPAC name)

Hypernyms

• (organic compound): aldehyde, volatile organic compound

Derived terms

• phenol formaldehyde resin
• urea-formaldehyde

 

Related terms

• formalin
• formic acid
• formol
• thioformaldehyde

Translations

organic compound

• Belarusian: фармальдэгі́д m (farmalʹdehíd)
• Catalan: formaldehid (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 甲醛 (gaap³ cyun⁴), 蟻醛／蚁醛 (ngai⁵ cyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 甲醛 (zh) (jiǎquán), 蟻醛／蚁醛 (zh) (yǐquán)

• Czech: formaldehyd (cs) m
• Danish: formaldehyd c
• Dutch: formaldehyde (nl)
• Esperanto: formaldehido
• Finnish: formaldehydi (fi)
• French: formaldéhyde (fr) m
• German: Formaldehyd (de) m
• Greek: φορμαλδεΰδη (el) f (formaldeÿ́di)
• Hebrew: פורמלין (he) m (formalín)
• Hindi: वम्रसुव्युद (vamrasuvyud)
• Hungarian: formaldehid (hu)
• Ido: formaldehido (io), metanalo (io)
• Indonesian: formaldehida
• Italian: formaldeide (it)
• Japanese: ホルムアルデヒド (ja) (horumuarudehido)
• Korean: 폼알데하이드 (pomaldehaideu)
• Latvian: formaldehīds m
• Lithuanian: formaldehidas
• Malay: formaldehid, metanal
• Persian: فرمالدئید (fa) (formâlde'id), فرمالدهید (formâldehid)
• Polish: aldehyd mrówkowy m, formaldehyd (pl) m, metanal m
• Portuguese: formaldeído (pt) m
• Russian: формальдеги́д (ru) m (formalʹdɛgíd)
• Spanish: formaldehído (es)
• Swedish: formaldehyd (sv) c
• Thai: ฟอร์มาลดีไฮด์ (th)
• Turkish: formaldehit (tr)
• Ukrainian: формальдегі́д m (formalʹdehíd)
• Vietnamese: fomanđêhít

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} Формалдехид (Formaldehid)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} formaldehüüd
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} formaldehida
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 폼알데하이드 (pomaldehaideu)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} methanal
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} formaldehidas
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} formaldehyd
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} فرمالدهید
• Sundanese: ^{(please verify)} formaldehida
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} formaldehyd (sv)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ฟอร์มาลดีไฮด์ (th)

Further reading

• formaldehyde on Wikipedia.Wikipedia