hydroquinone
English
Etymology
hydro- + quinone
Noun
hydroquinone (countable and uncountable, plural hydroquinones)
- (organic chemistry) The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild reducing agent in photographic developing; isomeric with catechol and resorcinol.
Derived terms
- anilinohydroquinone
- benzohydroquinone
- furylhydroquinone
- hydronaphthoquinone
- iodohydroquinone
- tertiary butylhydroquinone
- xylohydroquinone
Translations
the diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene
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French
Noun
hydroquinone f (uncountable)
- hydroquinone
Further reading
- “hydroquinone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.