Phenol: alternatives and connections

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

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Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

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One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

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Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.

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Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

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A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.

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Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colo…

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Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic)…

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A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties,…

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Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic.

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A phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasan…

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Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.

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