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Definition of Furfurol

1. n. A colorless oily liquid, C₄H₃O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.

Definition of Furfurol

1. Noun. (alternative form of furfural) ¹

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Definition of Furfurol

1. furfural [n -S] - See also: furfural

Medical Definition of Furfurol

1. A colourless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odour, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc, and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran. Synonym: furfural. Origin: L. Furfur bran + oleum oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Furfurol

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 (1870)
"Bran distilled with chloride of calcium does not yield furfurol, ... furfurol is also found among the products of the dry distillation of sugar. ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Impurities in Acetic Acid The more important impurities that are looked for in commercial acetic acid are formic acid, furfurol, acetone, sulphuric acid, ..."

3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1856)
"When sugar, starch, or saw-dust is distilled with dilute sulphuric acid without manganese, no furfurol is obtained. (Döbereiner. ..."

4. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1905)
"If the vapor escaping from the flask contains more than traces of furfurol a bright red coloration appears. A test with sucrose or pure starch will show the ..."

5. Food inspection and analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1907)
"To calculate the furfurol to pentosan or pentose use the following formulae: I. (furfurol 0.0104) X 1.68 = xylan. II. (furfurol 0.0104) X 2.07 = araban. ..."

6. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"260) has verified the conjecture of Gerhardt, that furfurol is the aldehyd ... If an aqueous solution of furfurol is boiled with freshly precipitated oxide ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"This has a higher boiling-point, and oxidizes more readily than furfurol, ... It is owing to the presence of this impurity that crude furfurol so rapidly ..."

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