allyl alcohol

noun

: a colorless pungent liquid CH₂=CHCH₂OH made chiefly by hydrolysis of allyl chloride and polymerized to a viscous substance by heating in the presence of oxygen

Word History

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined above

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