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Webster 1913 Edition
Hydroquinone
Hyˊdro-qui′none
,Noun.
[
Hydro-
, 2 + quinone
.] (Chem.)
A white crystalline substance,
C6H4(OH)2
, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene
. Definition 2024
hydroquinone
hydroquinone
English
Noun
hydroquinone (countable and uncountable, plural hydroquinones)
- (organic chemistry) The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild reducing agent in photographic developing; isomeric with catechol and resorcinol.
Translations
the diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene
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