mercaptoethanol
noun
mercaptoethanol is a noun meaning “A compound of ethanol with a thiol group, often specifically 2-mercaptoethanol, which is used in various organic chemistry applications including…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-R-C-A-P-T-O-E-T-H-A-N-O-L, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mercaptoethanol is mercaptoethanols.
What does mercaptoethanol mean?
noun
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A compound of ethanol with a thiol group, often specifically 2-mercaptoethanol, which is used in various organic chemistry applications including protein denaturation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mercaptoethanol
- mercaptoethanols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mercaptoethanol?
Mercaptoethanol appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).