phloroglucin

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From phloretin + Ancient Greek [Term?] (“sweet”).

Noun

phloroglucin (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A white crystalline phenol, metameric with pyrogallol, obtained by the decomposition of phloretin and from certain gums.

Derived terms
  • nitrophloroglucin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for phloroglucin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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