phloroglucin
English
Alternative forms
- phloroglucinol
Etymology
From phloretin + Ancient Greek [Term?] (“sweet”).
Noun
phloroglucin (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A white crystalline phenol, metameric with pyrogallol, obtained by the decomposition of phloretin and from certain gums.
Derived terms
- nitrophloroglucin
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for phloroglucin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)