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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A combining form used in organic chemistry to indicate a relationship to tannin.

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  • The unsaponifiable wax amounted to 21.2 percent, was nitrogen-free, gave a phytostearin reaction, and saponification and oxidation indicated that it was probably a tannol carnaubate.

    All About Coffee 1909

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