Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline phenol-alcohol, C6H4(OH).CH2(OH), or orthohydroxybenzyl alcohol, which is formed when salicin is hydrolyzed by emulsin or by dilute acids; also made by reducing salicylic aldehyde with sodium amalgam. It melts at 86° C.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also
hydroxy-benzyl alcohol .
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- noun organic chemistry The
phenolic alcohol o-hydroxy-benzyl alcohol obtained by the decomposition ofsalicin
Etymologies
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salicin + -gen + -in.
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Examples
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The caffeol obtained by Bernheimer in this work was believed by him to be a methyl derivative of saligenin.
All About Coffee 1909
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Spiroylic acid is also formed by the oxidation of spiroyligenic acid, and when saligenin, salicin, courmacin, or indigo, is heated with caustic potash.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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