əˈkrōlēə̇n noun
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Etymology: Latin acr-, ocer sharp + olēre to smell + International Scientific Vocabulary -in — more at edge , odor
: a toxic colorless mobile liquid aldehyde CH 2 = CHCHO with acrid odor and irritating vapors that is obtained by dehydration of glycerol, by destructive distillation of fats, or by oxidation of allyl alcohol, that polymerizes readily into resins, and that is used chiefly in organic synthesis (as of methionine) — called also acrylaldehyde