Word Meanings - OXYBENZENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.

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• PHENOL
  1. A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar. Note: It has a peculiar odor, somewhat resembling creosote,
• HYDROXYL
  A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc.
• HYDROXYLAMINE
  A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.
• PHENOLATE
  A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
• HYDROXY-
  A combining form, also used adjectively, indicating hydroxyl as an ingredient. Hydroxy acid , an organic acid, having (besides the hydroxyl group of the carboxyl radical) an alcoholic hydroxyl group, and thus having the qualities of an alcohol
• PHENOLOGY
  The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al , a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist , n.
• BENZENE
  A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product
• PHENOLPHTHALEIN; PHENOL PHTHALEIN
  A white or yellowish white crystalline substance, C20H14O4, formed by condensation of the anhydride of phthalic acid and phenol. Its solution in alkalies is brilliant red, but is decolorized by acids. This reaction, being very delicate, is used
• INDOPHENOL
  Any one of a series of artificial blue dyestuffs, resembling indigo in appearance, and obtained by the action of phenol on certain nitrogenous derivatives of quinone. Simple indophenol proper has not yet been isolated.
• OXYBENZENE
  Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.
• TETRAPHENOL
  Furfuran.
• TRIBROMOPHENOL; TRIBROMPHENOL
  A colorless crystalline substance prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine.
• OXYPHENOL
  A phenol, oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.
• AZOBENZENE
  A substance derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.
• THIOPHENOL
  A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.
• NITROBENZENE
  A yellow aromatic liquid , produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of
• TRINITROPHENOL
  Picric acid.