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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A colorless crystalline aromatic compound, C6H3(NH2)2OH·2HCl, used as a photographic developer.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trade-name for the hydrochlorid of diaminophenol, used as a developer in photography. Its formula is C6H3OH(NH2)2.2HCl. The free base is unstable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Photog. & Chem.) A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Originally a German trademark.]

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