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trichloroethylene

Today it means: The unsaturated chlorinated hydrocarbon CCl₂=CHCl used as an industrial solvent and formerly as an anaesthetic. Full definition →

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tri- + chloro- + ethylene (“ethyl (“eth- + -yl”) + -ene”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.