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• amidol
  amidol

  noun

  a colorless, crystalline powder, C 6 H 8 N 2 O⋅2HCl, derived from phenol, used chiefly as a photographic developer.
• Amidol
  Amidol

  noun

  a grey to colourless soluble crystalline solid that is used as a photographic developer; 2,4-diaminophenol dihydrochloride. Formula: C 6 H 3 (NH 2 ) 2 (OH).2HCl

amidol

American  

[am-i-dawl, -dol] / ˈæm ɪˌdɔl, -ˌdɒl /

noun

Chemistry.

1. a colorless, crystalline powder, C 6 H 8 N 2 O⋅2HCl, derived from phenol, used chiefly as a photographic developer.

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Amidol British  

/ ˈæmɪdɒl /

noun

1. a grey to colourless soluble crystalline solid that is used as a photographic developer; 2,4-diaminophenol dihydrochloride. Formula: C 6 H 3 (NH 2 ) 2 (OH).2HCl

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Etymology

Origin of amidol

First recorded in 1890–95; amid- + -ol ¹

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amidol

We needed not only the essential bulk chemicals, such as amidol, metol, para-amidophenol, and glycine, but also certain rarer substances, such as the photographic sensitisers, which were so essential for the Air Force.

From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor