phenol
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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.
Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which phenol proper is the type.
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Acetone ( (CHmain )main CO ) and phenol ( Cmain Hmain OH ) are used as feeder materials in the synthesis of many different substances.
An image of a computed electrostatic surface of neutral phenol, showing neutral regions in green, electronegative areas in orange-red, and the electropositive phenolic proton in blue.
By Dr. Robert Jay Lifton Although Zyklon-B pellets were used in the gas chambers to exterminate large groups of people, the Nazis learned that extermination of smaller groups was more economical by injection of each victim with phenol.
DNQ-Novolac photoresist One very common positive photoresist used with the I, G and H-lines from a mercury-vapor lamp is based on a mixture of diazonaphthoquinone (DNQ) and novolac resin (a phenol formaldehyde resin ).
Gerhardt coins the name "phénol" on page 221. The antiseptic properties of phenol were used by Sir Joseph Lister (1827–1912) in his pioneering technique of antiseptic surgery.
He came up with a scheme of using phenol formaldehyde (Bakelite) to cause the paints to harden after application, making the paintings appear as if they were 300 years old.