Guaiacol Definition

gwīə-kôl, -kōl
noun
A whitish, crystalline solid or slightly yellowish, oily liquid, C6H4(OH)OCH3, prepared from guaiacum or wood creosote and used in medicine as an expectorant or antiseptic and as a chemical reagent.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Guaiacol

Noun

Singular:
guaiacol
Plural:
guaiacols

Origin of Guaiacol

  • guaiacum, from which it can be derived, and -ol.

    From Wiktionary

  • guaiac(um) –ol

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Guaiacol Sentence Examples

  • The valerianic;ester of guaiacol is known as geosote, the benzoic as benzosol,' the salicylic as guaiacolsalol, while the glycerin ether appears as guaiamar.

  • Guaiacol carbonate is known as duotal, the phosphate as phosphatol, the phosphite as guaiaco-phosphal; phosphotal is a mixture of the phosphites of creosote phenols.

  • It results in the alkaline fusion of many resins, and may be prepared by fusing ortho-phenolsulphonic acid, o-chlorphenol, o-bromphenol, and o-phenoldisulphonic acid with potash, or, better, by heating its methyl ether, guaiacol, C 6 H 4 (OH) (OCH 3), a constituent of beechwood tar, with hydriodic acid.

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Words Starting With

GGUGUA

Words Ending With

LOLCOL

Unscrambles

guaiacol

Words Starting With G and Ending With L

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