a solution of glycerine and formaldehyde used as a disinfectant. [ < German Glycoformal (1898) < glyco-glyco-comb. form + formal- (in Formaldehydformaldehyden.).]
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1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc.74ii. 349 A solution of formaldehyde in glycerol, which they [sc. R. Walther and A. Schlossman] call ‘glycoformal’.