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Definition of Cresols
1. cresol [n] - See also: cresol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cresols
Literary usage of Cresols
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"It contains phenols, cresols, and higher homologa. Coal-tar creosote, sometimes
called creosote oil. contains that portion of the distillate from coal-tar ..."
2. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"There are three isomeric cresols which all resemble carbolic acid closely in ...
But the differences in toxicity between the cresols are too small to be of ..."
3. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1916)
"Commercial cresols. A large quantity of products, consisting essentially of a
mixture of the three isomeric cresols with a little phenol and ..."
4. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"cresols The introduction of alkyl groups into phenol greatly increases the
germicidal efficiency. The most important of these derivatives are the cresols, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. HE ARMSTRONG and Dr. TE THORPE,
appointed for the purpose of investigating Iso- meric cresols and their ..."
6. Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry by Elias Hudson Bartley (1898)
"There are three possible compounds having this formula, — the ortho-, meta-, and
para-cresols, — depending upon the relative positions of the OH and CH, ..."
7. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1900)
"Solution of rosin soap also dissolves cresols in large ... The popularity of
phenol and the cresols as antiseptics and disinfectants has led to the ..."
8. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"The cresols resemble phenol in their behaviour towards an aqueous solution of
bromine. p-Cresol, ..."
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