Indole meaning

ĭn'dōl'
A white crystalline compound, C8 H7 N, obtained from coal tar or various plants and produced by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan in the intestine. It is used in perfumes and as a reagent.
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Any of various derivatives of this compound.
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A white, crystalline compound, C8H7N, obtained from indigo and other sources and formed as a product of the intestinal putrefaction of proteins: it is used in perfumery, as a reagent, etc.
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A white crystalline compound, C8 H7 N, obtained from coal tar or various plants and produced by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan in the intestine. It is used in perfumes and as a reagent.
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A white crystalline compound obtained from coal tar or various plants and produced by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan in the intestine. It is used in the perfume industry and as a reagent. Chemical formula: C8H7N.
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(chemistry) An organic compound, C8H7N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fused with a pyrrole ring; indole and its derivatives occur widely in nature and have many industrial applications.
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(chemistry) Any of the derivatives of indole1.
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Origin of indole

  • ind(igo) –ole
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From indigo and Latin oleum, “oil”; consider -ole.
    From Wiktionary

Indole Sentence Examples

  • Many derivatives of indole are known.

  • The mono-benzo-derivatives are coumarone, benzothiophene and indole; the dibenzo-derivatives are diphenylene oxide, dibenzothiophene or diphenylene sulphide, and carbazole.

  • For the benzo-pyrrols see Indole.

  • C. Klotzsch, De occasione et indole epistolae ad Philem.

  • Other works: De Pentateuchi Samaritani origine, indole, et auctoritate (1815), supplemented in 1822 and 1824 by the treatise De Samaritanorum theologia, and by an edition of Carmina Samaritana; Palaographische Studien fiber phdnizische u.

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