quinone
a yellow, crystalline, cyclic unsaturated diketone, C6H4O2, formed by oxidizing aniline or hydroquinone: used chiefly in photography and in tanning leather.
any of a class of compounds of this type.
Origin of quinone
1- Also chinone.
Words Nearby quinone
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How to use quinone in a sentence
The gradation of color is quite pronounced in the case of selenonaphthene quinone.
Thus there is quinone itself, or benzoquinone, which is benzene with two atoms of oxygen replacing two atoms of hydrogen.
Coal | Raphael MeldolaPhenanthrene forms a quinone which has been utilized as a source of colouring-matters, but these are comparatively unimportant.
Coal | Raphael MeldolaThe compound is readily prepared by the action of sulphurous acid or any other reducing agent on the quinone.
Coal | Raphael MeldolaThe so-called chrysophanic acid found in Xanthoria (Physcia) parietina is not an acid but a quinone and is better termed physcion.
British Dictionary definitions for quinone
/ (kwɪˈnəʊn, ˈkwɪnəʊn) /
another name for benzoquinone
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Scientific definitions for quinone
[ kwĭ-nōn′, kwĭn′ōn′ ]
Any of a class of organic compounds that occur naturally as pigments in bacteria, plants, and certain fungi. Quinones have two carbonyl groups (CO) in an unsaturated six-member carbon ring.
A yellow crystalline compound belonging to this class, used in photography, to make dyes and to tan hides. Chemical formula: C6H4O2.
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