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BENZOYL PEROXIDE

Dictionary entry overview: What does benzoyl peroxide mean?

• BENZOYL PEROXIDE (noun)
The noun BENZOYL PEROXIDE has 1 sense:

1. a white crystalline peroxide used in bleaching (flour or oils or fats) and as a catalyst for free radical reactions

Familiarity information: BENZOYL PEROXIDE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BENZOYL PEROXIDE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A white crystalline peroxide used in bleaching (flour or oils or fats) and as a catalyst for free radical reactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("benzoyl peroxide" is a kind of...):

blanching agent; bleach; bleaching agent; whitener (an agent that makes things white or colorless)

peroxide (an inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O-)

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