Definition of Anethole

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) A particular aromatic compound found in anise. ¹

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Definition of Anethole

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anethole

anesthetizations
anesthetize
anesthetized
anesthetizer
anesthetizers
anesthetizes
anesthetizing
anesthyl
anestra
anestri
anestric
anestrous
anestrum
anethol
anethole (current term)
anethole trithione
anetholes
anethols
anethopath
anetic
anetoderma
aneuploid
aneuploidies
aneuploids
aneuploidy
aneural
aneurin
aneurine
aneurine hydrochloride

Literary usage of Anethole

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

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"If the oil, in a narrow test-tube, be cooled to about 9° or 10°, and a crystal of anethole added, or crystallisation induced by stirring, the thermometer ..."

2. The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Interrelations Between by Raphael Meldola (1904)
"Or the anisic aldehyde may be heated with sodium propionate and propionic anhydride at 200°, when anethole ie directly formed ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1880)
"... dihy- dro-anethole ; tetrahydro-anethole ; hexahydro-anethole ; and some substances obtained by the action of potassium hydrate in alcoholic solution, ..."

4. Solubilities of Inorganic and Organic Compounds: A Compilation of by Atherton Seidell (1919)
"Vol. per cent alcohol = -20 25 30 40 50 Gm. anethole per liter aq. alcohol = oi 2 0.20 0.32 0.86 2.30 333-3 gros- anethole dissolve in one liter of ..."

5. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"By the thermometer bulb method 15.7° vras obtained as the mp of anethole. ... anethole kept in stoppered bottles, exposed to the light for 5 months, ..."

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