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Definition of Cresol
1. Noun. Any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant.
Definition of Cresol
1. n. 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 colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]
Definition of Cresol
1. Noun. (chemistry) either of the three isomeric phenols derived from toluene: ortho-, meta- or para-methylphenol ¹
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Definition of Cresol
1. a chemical disinfectant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cresol
1. HO-C6H4-CH3; hydroxytoluene; methylphenol;a mixture of the three isomeric cresols, o-, m-, and p-cresol, obtained from coal tar. Its properties are similar to those of phenol, but it is less poisonous; used as an antiseptic and disinfectant. Synonym: tricresol. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cresol
Literary usage of Cresol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Ind. 1904, 759) consista in saturating the crude cresol with milk of lime, when
the calcium salt of m-cresol, which is much less soluble than that of the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Ind. 1900, 37), by repeated fractionation of the crude cresol, obtains a mixture
containing GO pc of meta- and 40 pc of para-cresol. ..."
3. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1916)
"P. 112545), after having removed most of the 0-cresol by fractional ... 759) has
also worked out another process for separating w-cresol from /-cresol (Ger. ..."
4. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"cresol is insoluble in small quantities of pure 6 per cent, ... Cold petroleum
spirit dissolves cresol, but no crystalline scales can be separated out by a ..."
5. Useful drugs (1921)
"ACTIONS AND USES: cresol is an active poison resembling phenol in its effects.
... ACTION AND USES : Compound solution of cresol has about twice the ..."
6. The Manufacture of Explosives: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Oscar Guttmann (1895)
"cresol is a homologue of phenol. There are three isomers— ortho-cresol, ...
The cresylic acid of commerce contains about 40 per cent, of meta-cresol, ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1905)
"Experiments made by Tollens upon frogs, mice, and cats with phenol and sodium
phenate as compared with the toxic action of ortho-, meta-, and para-cresol, ..."
8. Manual of Chemistry: A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners by William Simon (1916)
"cresol, CHOH = 108.06.—The official cresol is a mixture of the three isomeric
cresols, ... If a pure cresol is wanted, it is prepared either by fusing the ..."
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