glyoxal
noun
glyoxal is a noun meaning “The dialdehyde ethanedial derived from ethylene glycol; it is used in the preparation of modified starch for the paper industry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-Y-O-X-A-L, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of glyoxal is glyoxals.
What does glyoxal mean?
noun
- 1
The dialdehyde ethanedial derived from ethylene glycol; it is used in the preparation of modified starch for the paper industry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of glyoxal
- glyoxals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is glyoxal?
Glyoxal appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).