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Definition of Pyrogallol
1. Noun. A toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer.
Definition of Pyrogallol
1. n. A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.
Definition of Pyrogallol
1. Noun. (chemistry) A poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene, C6H3(OH)3, used is a photographic developer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pyrogallol
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Literary usage of Pyrogallol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1913)
"pyrogallol crystallizes in colourless needles or plates melting at 132° ...
pyrogallol reduces salts of silver, mercury, or gold to their respective metals. ..."
2. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"pyrogallol crystallizes in colourless needles or plates melting at 1 32° and is
... pyrogallol reduces salts of silver, mercury, or gold to their respective ..."
3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"The aqueous solution of pyrogallol is turned brown by nitrous acid ... pyrogallol
does not precipitate a solution of gelatin. pyrogallol might probably be ..."
4. A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1903)
"pyrogallol is excreted in part oxidized products, which give the urine a dark
brown or black ... The skin is dyed brown when pyrogallol is applied to it, ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"tion of the pyrogallol solution has no appreciable effect on the end result,
provided the concentration is above a certain lower limit, ..."
6. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1887)
"OH OH /\)HO OH'\ JOH pyrogallol is obtained by the separation of carbon dioxide from
... In order to prepare pyrogallol in small quantities, gallic acid, ..."
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