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(Phenol and lignin are also what prevents smoked meat from going bad.)
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Phenol polymers are produced at an annual rate of 2.2 million metric tons per year in the United States for many industrial and commercial applications including durable plastics.
16 Year Old High School Student Discovers Microbe That Eats Plastic | Impact Lab 2010
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Phenol can be used to make the explosive trinitrophenol.
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Phenol can be used as a secondary treatment for psoriasis — it remove scales so that other topical psoriasis treatments can access affected areas more directly.
Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » What is Phenol and Is It an Effective Psoriasis Treatment? 2009
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Other medical uses of Phenol include disinfecting and preserving dead bodies.
Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » What is Phenol and Is It an Effective Psoriasis Treatment? 2009
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Phenol acid is the harshest chemical peel available.
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We start our morning routine by gently scrubbing our bodies with Ammonia, Formaldehyde and Phenol.
Amy Swift: Ladies Who Launch: Moms - Beware! Is It Beauty Or Cancer That Is In Our Bathrooms 2008
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Phenol has the functional hydroxyl group that is then conjugated by a Phase II reaction (sulphation) to phenyl sulfate.
Biotransformation 2008
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Phenol has anesthetic properties, and is the active ingredient in some oral anesthetics such as Chloraseptic® spray.
Archive 2006-02-01 Holly 2006
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Carbolic acid, the stuff first used by Lister as an antiseptic in surgery, is also known as Phenol.
surgical antiseptics Holly 2006
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