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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline, sublimable compound, C6H4(NH2).OH, obtained by the reduction of paranitrophenol, C6H4(NO2).OH, with tin and hydrochloric acid, whereby the nitro group is changed to the amido group: a strong reducing agent.
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