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A toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer
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pyrogallol
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Pyrogallol \Pyr`o*gal"lol\, n. [Pyrogallic + -ol.] (Chem.) A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid . It is ...
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n. a toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer [syn: pyrogallic acid ]
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n. (context organic compound English) A poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 , used is a photographic developer.
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Pyrogallol is an organic compound with the formula CH(OH). It is a white solid although because of its sensitivity toward oxygen, samples are typically brownish. It is one of three isomeric benzenetriols .