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Any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins
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quinone
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Wiktionary
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n. (context organic compound English) Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quinone \Qui"none\, n. [Quinine + ketone.] (Chem.) A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone ), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper ...
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A quinone is a class of organic compounds that are formally "derived from aromatic compounds [such as benzene or naphthalene ] by conversion of an even number of –CH= groups into –C(=O)– groups with any necessary rearrangement of double bonds ", resulting ...
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n. any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes [syn: benzoquinone ]
Usage examples of quinone.
Lucy Quinones turned quickly and grasped the sci-deck rail with one hand, men pointed at the forward screen with the other.
Over there, Zoa and Quinones were both pressed against the quadritronics ring.
She stared at Lucy Quinones and Dean Creighton without a care for politeness or explanation, the way a child stares.
Keller caught himself on the pilot station, but managed not to crush Quinones as she fought to bring the screaming frigate back up.
Keller stood beside the command riser, Lumellen hovered near Shucorion, hungrily eyeing the helm as Quinones struggled to get something to use.
Keller wandered to the starboard side, where Quinones, hi a pair of safety goggles, used a soldering tool on the damaged plates.
In 1434, with the permission of Juan II, Suero Quinones, for the love of his lady, jousted with sixty-eight challenging knights at what is called the Honorable Pass.
The hard-shelled Quinones deposited her phaser into the pressure-molded Security Division chest shield that dominated her upper body.
Lucy Quinones grimaced in empathy for Bonifay, but what could anyone say?
He was sending Cardinal Quinones, a most gifted and experienced lawyer, to Rome on her behalf.
Peter Quinones for sharing his knowledge of the life of Clark Ashton Smith.
She stared at Lucy Quinones and Dean Creighton without a care for politeness or explanation, the way a child stares.
Keller stood beside the command riser, Lumellen hovered near Shucorion, hungrily eyeing the helm as Quinones struggled to get something to use.
Chrysarobin is a reduced quinone, and chrysophanic acid (also found in rhubarb yellow lichen, Buckthorn Berries, Rumox Eckolianus, a South African dock, etc.
There was an invitation given by a gentleman of my town, a very rich one, and one of quality, for he was one of the Alamos of Medina del Campo, and married to Dona Mencia de Quinones, the daughter of Don Alonso de Maranon, Knight of the Order of Santiago, that was drowned at the Herradura- him there was that quarrel about years ago in our village, that my master Don Quixote was mixed up in, to the best of my belief, that Tomasillo the scapegrace, the son of Balbastro the smith, was wounded in.