Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liquid, C8H9(OH) or 2-ethylphenol, found in creosote from wood-tar and also made synthetically, as by the distillation of barium phloretate with lime. It boils at 206.5–207.5° C.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.
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- noun chemistry A
phenol that ismetameric withxylenol , obtained bydistillation of certainsalts ofphloretic acid .
Etymologies
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phloretic + --ol
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