Word Meanings - PHENOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

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• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• PHENOL
  1. A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar. Note: It has a peculiar odor, somewhat resembling creosote,
• PHENOLATE
  A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
• PHENOLOGY
  The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al , a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist , n.
• PHENOLPHTHALEIN; PHENOL PHTHALEIN
  A white or yellowish white crystalline substance, C20H14O4, formed by condensation of the anhydride of phthalic acid and phenol. Its solution in alkalies is brilliant red, but is decolorized by acids. This reaction, being very delicate, is used
• ANALOGOUS
  Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J.
• COMPOUND
  In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
• INDOPHENOL
  Any one of a series of artificial blue dyestuffs, resembling indigo in appearance, and obtained by the action of phenol on certain nitrogenous derivatives of quinone. Simple indophenol proper has not yet been isolated.
• TETRAPHENOL
  Furfuran.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.
• TRIBROMOPHENOL; TRIBROMPHENOL
  A colorless crystalline substance prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine.
• OXYPHENOL
  A phenol, oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• DECOMPOUNDABLE
  Capable of being decompounded.
• THIOPHENOL
  A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.
• DECOMPOUND
  1. To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time. 2. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose. It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. Hazlitt.
• TRINITROPHENOL
  Picric acid.