Formaldehyde is an English word with synonyms like aldehyde or gas. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Formaldehyde in a sentence
Formaldehyde meaning
The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.
Using Formaldehyde
- The main meaning on this page is: The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.
- Useful related words include: methanal, aldehyde, gas.
- In the example corpus, formaldehyde often appears in combinations such as: formaldehyde and, formaldehyde is, and formaldehyde.
Context around Formaldehyde
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Formaldehyde
- In this selection, "formaldehyde" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, urea, carcinogens, compounds, resins, presents and allergies stand out and add context to how "formaldehyde" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aggressive as formaldehyde might be and amounts of formaldehyde from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "formaldehyde" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and accountancy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with formaldehyde
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It can metabolize four major pollutants like formaldehyde and toluene. (10 words)
In vitro skin penetration of bronidox, bronopol and formaldehyde from cosmetics. (11 words)
Formaldehyde is one of the many carcinogenic chemicals emitted by fracking operations. (12 words)
Yacoub’s family had told him stories about his 16-year-old cousin, who they said had been shot in the head and killed by Israeli soldiers in the late 1980s for throwing a stone, his brain preserved in a jar of formaldehyde in the family home. (47 words)
And she made sure to get their attention with her table decorations — book-ended by a giant, coiled rattlesnake in a globe full of formaldehyde, and a jet black scorpion in a small clear cube designed to mimic its desert habitat. (41 words)
With regard to formaldehyde, it is rapidly converted in the body, and the amounts of formaldehyde from the metabolism of aspartame are trivial when compared to the amounts produced routinely by the human body and from other foods and drugs. (40 words)
Perhaps unbelievably, chemicals as aggressive as formaldehyde might be sitting in your bathroom cabinet right now! (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
Urea -formaldehyde resins were also used in this tanning method before people realized the hazards that formaldehyde presents to tanners and consumers.
With regard to formaldehyde, it is rapidly converted in the body, and the amounts of formaldehyde from the metabolism of aspartame are trivial when compared to the amounts produced routinely by the human body and from other foods and drugs.
And she made sure to get their attention with her table decorations — book-ended by a giant, coiled rattlesnake in a globe full of formaldehyde, and a jet black scorpion in a small clear cube designed to mimic its desert habitat.
In vitro skin penetration of bronidox, bronopol and formaldehyde from cosmetics.
It can metabolize four major pollutants like formaldehyde and toluene.
Most notably, the company — which previously operated under the brand name Lumber Liquidators — had to pay $33 million for misleading investors about formaldehyde in its laminate flooring products sourced from China.
Perhaps unbelievably, chemicals as aggressive as formaldehyde might be sitting in your bathroom cabinet right now!
Sitting for just 30 minutes every day in a car exposes you to dangerous levels of carcinogens formaldehyde and acetaldehyde.
The original review did not address potentially major toxins involved in vaping (e.g. formaldehyde and fine particles produced by the heating of vape liquids).
The report also noted that all vapes contained two carbonyl compounds, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, which are known to irritate lung tissue.
This gel-infused foam mattress is also CertiPUR-US certified to be free of harmful chemicals like formaldehyde, as well as flame retardants and phthalates.
When people were getting formaldehyde allergies from standard nail polish, manufacturers coined terms like “3-free” and “4-free” to indicate which of the top allergens their new formulas were free from.
Wildfires also produce carbon monoxide, benzene, acrolein, formaldehyde and chemicals that structural firefighters face.
Yacoub’s family had told him stories about his 16-year-old cousin, who they said had been shot in the head and killed by Israeli soldiers in the late 1980s for throwing a stone, his brain preserved in a jar of formaldehyde in the family home.
Formaldehyde and Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons commonly found in counterfeit perfumes can also increase the risk and development of cancer.
Formaldehyde is a byproduct of combustion, and we suspected that the gas stove and candles were largely to blame for the high levels of the chemical that evening.
Instead of using the methanol to accelerate the mind, the body inexplicably breaks it down into formaldehyde and formic acid.
Swallowing formaldehyde can lead to burns and ulcers in the stomach or intestines shortly after ingestion.
By making cleaning products (from polish to detergent) you can reduce the amount of plastic entering your home and the level of harmful VOCs (volatile organic compounds), such as formaldehyde, that are released.
Formaldehyde is one of the many carcinogenic chemicals emitted by fracking operations.
Common combinations with formaldehyde
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- formaldehyde and 16×
- formaldehyde is 9×
- and formaldehyde 8×
- of formaldehyde 5×
- formaldehyde from 3×
- like formaldehyde 3×
- formaldehyde in 3×
- as formaldehyde 3×
- that formaldehyde 2×
- to formaldehyde 2×