ethyl chloride
noun
: a colorless pungent flammable gaseous or volatile liquid C2H5Cl used especially as a topical anesthetic
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Outside the sports world, physicians sometimes use sprays like ethyl chloride to numb an injection site before inserting a needle.
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Angela Yang, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
Chloroethane is also known as ethyl chloride, a colorless, flammable gas typically used in gasoline additives and plastics that is also sometimes used as a recreational inhalant drug.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2022
Chloroethane, also known as ethyl chloride, is used as a solvent, refrigerant and local anesthetic, the IFS said in a statement.
—Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
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Angela Yang, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
Chloroethane is also known as ethyl chloride, a colorless, flammable gas typically used in gasoline additives and plastics that is also sometimes used as a recreational inhalant drug.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2022
Chloroethane, also known as ethyl chloride, is used as a solvent, refrigerant and local anesthetic, the IFS said in a statement.
—Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
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“Ethyl chloride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethyl%20chloride. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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