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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A carcinogenic white solid, C9H8Cl3NO2S, used as an agricultural fungicide and bacteriostat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A particular phthalimide fungicide.
  • noun ethyl mercaptan

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for mercaptan.]

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