Carbonyl Chloride Definition

noun

Phosgene.

Webster's New World

(inorganic chemistry) A toxic gas, COCl2, used in the manufacture of plastics, pesticides etc, and once used as a chemical weapon.

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Carbonyl Chloride Sentence Examples

  • It is also decomposed by carbonyl chloride (Besson, loc. cit.).

  • In contact with chlorine monoxide it forms carbonyl chloride and thionyl chloride (P. Schiitzenberger, Ber., 1869, 2, p. 219).

  • It unites directly with chlorine, forming carbonyl chloride or phosgene (see below), and with nickel and iron to form nickel and iron carbonyls (see Nickel and IxoN).

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carbonyl chloride

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