Hydroquinone Definition

hīdrō-kwĭ-nōn, -kwĭnōn
noun
A white, crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, used in photographic developers, dyes, paints, etc. and in medicine to remove pigmentation from the skin.
Webster's New World

(organic chemistry) The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild reducing agent in photographic developing; isomeric with catechol and resorcinol.

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Other Word Forms of Hydroquinone

Noun

Singular:
hydroquinone
Plural:
hydroquinones

Origin of Hydroquinone

  • hydro- +‎ quinone

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Hydroquinone Sentence Examples

  • All four mono-hydroxyxanthones are known, and are prepared by heating salicylic acid with either resorcin, pyrocatechin or hydroquinone; they are yellow crystalline solids, which act as dyestuffs.

  • On fusion with caustic potash it decomposes with formation of tetrahydroxy-benzophenone, which then breaks up into resorcin and hydroquinone.

  • Free hydroxylamine reduces it to hydroquinone.

  • Quinhydrone, C 6 H40 2 -C 6 H 4 (OH) 2, is formed by the direct union of quinone and hydroquinone or by careful oxidation of hydroquinone with ferric chloride solution.

  • On boiling with water it decomposes into quinone and hydroquinone.

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Words Starting With

HHYHYD

Words Ending With

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