Used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic

Usage examples of phenol.

You take the buccal swab and swirl it around in a test tube containing a solution that turns acid in the presence of even a microgram of DNA, then add a drop of Phenol Red.

Taylor speaks of a man who fell unconscious ten seconds after an ounce of phenol had been ingested, and in three minutes was dead.

It was a terrible thing to see, so close, so low, packed with chlorides, benzines, phenols, hydrocarbons, or whatever the precise toxic content.

The air was heavy with the scents of ozone from the welding, with melted flux and phenol and plastics.

The zoologist continued, "Then there're traces of formaldehyde, phenol, fructose, dextrose, cellulose.

Catechol, for instance, with two hydroxy groups on the benzene nucleus, dissolves considerably more quickly than does phenol, with only one hydroxy group on the nucleus.

Phenols and nitrobenzene bring to mind ether and shoe polish respectively, and ethylene glycol smells exactly like antifreeze because that's exactly what it is.

The usual pH indicator in tissue culture media is phenol red, which turns clear in acid.

You took the buccal swab and swirled it around in a test tube containing a solution that turns acid in the presence of even a microgram of DNA, then added a drop of phenol red.

Probably she could boil away the more volatile phenols and other organic carcinogens.

You know the indols, the phenols, and the amins are produced both by putrefactive bacteria and by the process of metabolism, the burning up of the tissues in the process of utilizing the energy that means life.

But in fact I was going to New Jersey tomorrow to close someone else down, so Fotex could keep dumping phenols, acetone, phthalates, various solvents, copper, silver, lead, mercury, and zinc into Boston Harbor to their heart's content, at least until I got back.

Formaldehyde, glycerin, borax with a little phenol added and some sodium citrate as an anti-coagulant.