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Definition of Polyphenol
1. Noun. (chemistry) any of a large class of organic compounds, of plant origin, having more than one phenol group; they tend to be colourful and to have antioxidant properties ¹
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Definition of Polyphenol
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyphenol
Literary usage of Polyphenol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... so that a second source of polyphenol compds. occurs in processes in which
the destruction of reducing sugar by heating with lime is practiced, ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"If we had added the water before the alcohol, at the ordinary temperature, the
mixture of polyphenol and dioxide would have ignited. ..."
3. Innovative Soil-Plant Systems for Sustainable Agricultural Practices by James Michael Lynch, James Stuart Schepers, Ilhami Ünver (2003)
"In particular, the substantial decrease of polyphenol content, which are known
to be among the most important precursors in the synthesis of HS (Wang et al. ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"... polyphenol reagent (phosphomolybdic acid) giving positive tests. Yet they did
not mention the source of either compound. They found that nitrotyrosine ..."