flavogallol

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noun

A bright yellow crystalline compound, C₂₁H₈O₁₂, that forms hair-like needles and can be used as a yellow dye.

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Meanings

nounflavogallol (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryA bright yellow crystalline compound, C₂₁H₈O₁₂, that forms hair-like needles and can be used as a yellow dye.

    In the paste form flavogallol readily dyes mordanted fabrics […]

    1918, Arthur George Perkin, Arthur Ernest Everest, The Natural Organic Colouring Matters, page 409
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    Structure (I), considered but rejected by earlier workers, is now proposed for flavogallol.

    1956, Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, page 4225
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