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dioxin

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6 lettersPronunciation /daɪˈɒksɪn/Part of speech nounSorted diinoxStarts with DEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides

Word origin

From di- (prefix meaning ‘double; two’) + ox(ygen) + -in (suffix indicating a neutral chemical compound), a reference to the fact that the compound has two oxygen atoms.

Used in a sentence

  • The detection of dioxin (specifically, the 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-pdioxin TCDD) in 2,4,5-T raised the question whether dioxin might be present in other herbicides.

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