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Definition of Phthalin
1. n. A colorless crystalline substance obtained by reduction from phthaleïn, into which it is easily converted by oxidation; hence, any one of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.
Definition of Phthalin
1. Noun. (chemistry) A colourless crystalline substance obtained by reduction from phthalein, into which it is easily converted by oxidation. ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) Any of the series of which phthalin proper is the type. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phthalin
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Medical Definition of Phthalin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phthalin
Literary usage of Phthalin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"... by oxidizing an alkaline solution of the corresponding phthalin with air ...
to phthalin (p. 361), and it is decomposed into ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... in- phthalin precipitated by water, has been de- scribed. The separation of
the aurin from the ..."
3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"CH 61 phthalin III Phenolphthalein in its salts (quinonoid form) Formula I
represents the colourless form of phenolphthalein as a lactonic derivative of ..."
4. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1876)
"Thus with phthalic acid and phenol, for example, there is a phthalin and a ...
Of course the products were a phthalin and a phthalein of re- sorcin. ..."
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