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Definition of Phenols
1. phenol [n] - See also: phenol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phenols
Literary usage of Phenols
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"From the phenols having the character of weak acids, it follows that the group
... Many individual phenols are found in the vegetable and animal kingdoms. ..."
2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1900)
"The bodies termed phenols are intermediate in character between acids and the
true aromatic alcohols, of which benzyl alcohol is the type. ..."
3. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1910)
"They are isolated by agitating these fractions with caustic alkali, which dissolves
the phenols, leaving the hydrocarbons. They are liberated from the ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1900)
"The bodies termed phenols are intermediate in character between acids and the
true aromatic alcohols, of which benzyl alcohol is the type. ..."
5. A Method for the Identification of Pure Organic Compounds by a Systematic by Samuel Parsons Mulliken (1904)
"Brown colorations are characteristic of phenols like pyrogallol, whose alkaline
... It is necessary to restrict "the test with alkali" to solid phenols, ..."
6. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Boiling of the contents of the tube is avoided and no loss of volatile phenols
occurs, as the author showed by repeating the determination with known ..."
7. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"ALKALI- INSOLUBLE phenols. SECOND PAPER. BY HENRY A. TORREY ANI> HB KIPPER. ...
Kostanecki has obtained certain nitrogen-free phenols which are insoluble in ..."