trifluoroethanol

Meaning

Noun

Any of several isomers of an alcohol formally derived from ethanol by replacing three hydrogen atoms by those of fluorine, but especially 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol

Related

Similar words

TFE
trifluoroethyl alcohol

Narrower meaning words

2,2,2-trifluoroethanol

Origin

tri- + fluoro-

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