Word Meanings - OXYPHENOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A phenol, oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.

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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,
• PHENOLATE
  A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
• 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.
• PYROCATECHIN
  A white crystalline substance, C6H4 2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.
• OXYPHENIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly called oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See Pyrocatechin.
• 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.
• 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.
• THIOPHENOL
  A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.
• TRINITROPHENOL
  Picric acid.