phenol
IPA: fˈinɑɫ
noun
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) A caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C₆H₅OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic; once called carbolic acid
- (organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring (or other aromatic ring)
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Examples of "phenol" in Sentences
- It should be a quinone not a phenol.
- The answer is cocoa phenols in the chocolate.
- Most doctors use phenol to ablate the nail matrix.
- Phenolic resin is made of formeldahyde and phenol.
- The phenol tanks had steam coils to keep the phenol liquid.
- There is no other pool balls made in phenolic or phenolic based resin.
- In the edit summary you wrote that it is both a phenol ether and a phenol.
- This colourless viscous liquid is the ester of phosphorous acid and phenol.
- If they used phenolic or phenolic based resins, they would obviously say so.
- The reactive species is the phenolic anion formed by deprotonation of phenol.
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