Phenol - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: phenol Page: 3Hydroquinone
A white crystalline substance C6H4OH2 obtained by the reduction of quinone It is a diacid phenol resembling and metameric with pyrocatechin and resorcin Called also dihydroxy benzene...
Nitrophnol
Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of phenol They are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well defined acid properties as picric acid...
ol
A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives as ethanol carbinol phenol glycerol etc Such compounds contain the hydroxy radical OH...
Oxybenzene
Hydroxy benzene Same as Phenol...
Oxyphenic
Pertaining to or designating the phenol formerly called oxyphenic acid and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin See Pyrocatechin...
Oxyphenol
A phenol C6H4OH2 produced by the distillation of catechin called also oxyphenic acid and now pyrocatechin...
Oxyquinoline
Hydroxy quinoline a phenol derivative of quinoline called also carbostyril...
Creosote
Wood tar oil an oily antiseptic liquid of a burning smoky taste colorless when pure but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar especially that of beechwood...
Eugenol
A colorless aromatic liquid hydrocarbon C10H12O2 resembling the phenols and hence also called eugenic acid It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves...
Glucoside
One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances occurring very widely distributed in plants rarely in animals and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars They are frequently of a bitter taste but by the action of ferments or of dilute acids and alkalies always break down into some characteristic substance acid aldehyde alcohol phenole or alkaloid and glucose or some other sugar hence the name They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates...
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