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Definition of Thymol

1. Noun. A colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic.

Definition of Thymol

1. n. A phenol derivative of cymene, C₁₀H₁₃.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties; -- called also hydroxy cymene.

Definition of Thymol

1. Noun. (chemistry) a monoterpene phenol, C₁₀H₁₃OH, found in the oil extracted from thyme; used as in perfume, as an antiseptic and fungicide, and in embalming ¹

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Definition of Thymol

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Thymol

1. A phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odour and strong antiseptic properties. Synonym: hydroxy cymene. Origin: Thyme + -ol. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Thymol

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 (1869)
"Decompositions of thymol.—1. thymol is somewhat altered by repeated ... thymol is easily oxidised by chromic acid, or by a mixture of sulphuric acid and ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"thymol Solution 1%. The thymol is dissolved in a ittle glacial acetic acid ... Enough thymol reagent is added so that there is present at least 0.000' gram ..."

3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"thymol. CMH"03. AE ARPPE. (184C.) Ann. Pharm. 58, 42; abstr. Berz. ... as identical with thymol. The (partly differing) statements of Stenhouse relate to ..."

4. A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Or, The Action of Drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1906)
"thymol. Another phenol homologue is thymol, which resembles carbolic acid ... thymol is said to be more liable to cause renal irritation than carbolic acid ..."

5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1878)
"THE NEW ANTISEPTIC thymol GAUZE. As your readers may wish to know the price at which ... thymol itself cannot be sold here for less than 2s. 6d. per ounce. ..."

6. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"thymol is a phenol, and homologous with carbolic and cresylic acids, ... thymol forms large colourless crystals having a feeble aromatic smell and burning ..."

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