Definition of Pyrogallic acid

1. Noun. A toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer.

Exact synonyms: Pyrogallol
Generic synonyms: Phenol
Derivative terms: Pyrogallic

Definition of Pyrogallic acid

1. Noun. (chemistry) An alternative name for the trihydroxy phenol, pyrogallol. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrogallic Acid

pyroclastic rock
pyroclastic surge
pyroclasts
pyrocumulus
pyroelectric
pyroelectric effect
pyroelectrical
pyroelectrically
pyroelectricity
pyroelectrics
pyroelectrodynamic
pyroelectrodynamics
pyrogallate
pyrogallates
pyrogallic
pyrogallic acid (current term)
pyrogallol
pyrogallols
pyrogen
pyrogenetic
pyrogenic
pyrogenicities
pyrogenicity
pyrogenous
pyrogens
pyrogeography
pyroglutamate
pyroglutamates
pyroglutamic
pyroglutamic acid

Literary usage of Pyrogallic acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"Its aqueous solution is turned brown by nitrous acid, eren in very small quantity, so that in fact, pyrogallic acid affords as delicate a test for nitrous ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"The following are the formulas usually employed by him: pyrogallic acid one part, vaseline four parts; another, which has given excellent results, ..."

3. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"He acid 7C+3H-H5O pyrogallic acid has a faintly bitler astringent taste without acidity, and barely reddens litmus paper. At 217° it fuses and at 410° boils ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"Sublimed pyrogallic acid forms voluminous brilliant plates, which are freely ... The alkaline solutions of pyrogallic acid rapidly assume an ntense reddish ..."

5. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1853)
"Pure tannin and gallic acid are the only substances which are known, by distillation, to yield pyrogallic acid. Taking advantage of this circumstance, ..."

6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1853)
"Pure tannin and gallic acid are the only substances which are known, by distillation, to yield pyrogallic acid. Taking advantage of this circumstance, ..."

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