Plural: acroleins
ETYM Latin acer sharp + olêre to smell.
Gas used as a chemical weapon in World War I by the French under the code-name Papite. It is primarily a lachrymator (tear gas) and lung irritant, though in heavy concentrations can be toxic.
It was fired in artillery shells and hand grenades but its lack of chemical stability made it difficult to store and it saw relatively little service use.
A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating.
acrodont · acrolein · acromegalia · acromegaly
Tečni aldehid, CH2 : CHCO Bistra i veoma ljuta mirisa tečnost koja se stvara suvom desitlacijom glicerina i nekih masti.