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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A salt of phenol.
  • transitive verb To treat with phenol or a salt of phenol.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

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  • noun chemistry phenoxide

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Examples

  • Further, modeling of UbiA was able to connect the decreases in enzyme activity to specific chemical functions of mutated residues, i.e. activation of a phenolate intermediate by D191.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael L. Nickerson et al. 2010

  • (PHAs) and alkyl phenolate present in water effluent from the Norwegian oil and gas industry.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • However, the situation changes when Arg418 is substituted with Gln: now the Tyr419 phenolate can accept a proton from water.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

  • However, the situation changes when Arg418 is substituted with Gln: now the Tyr419 phenolate can accept a proton from water.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

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