polysalicylide love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crystalline condensation-product of salicylic acid, , formed, together with tetrasalicylide, when a solution of the acid in toluene is heated with phosphorus oxychlorid. It is slowly converted into salicylic acid by the action of boiling concentrated caustic soda.

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