Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ketone in which part of the hydrogen is replaced by hydroxyl, as acetol, CH3.CO.CH2(OH). More correctly called
hydroxykelone .
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He established that its empirical formula was C18H22O2, and that it was an oxyketone.
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