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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline compound, C8H6O2, made variously, as by the reduction of phthalyl chlorid with zinc and hydrochloric acid. It is the anhydrid of orthomethylolbenzoic acid, C6H4(COOH)(CH2OH).
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