Definitions for pyrogallol

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pyrogallol py·ro·gal·lol

Spelling: [pahy-ruh-gal-awl, -ol, -guh-lawl, - Pyrogallol is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in pyrogallol (agllloopry).

Definitions for pyrogallol

noun

1. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous, solid, phenolic compound, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 , obtained by heating gallic acid and water: used chiefly as a developer in photography, as a mordant for wool, in dyeing, and in medicine in the treatment of certain skin conditions.

Origin of pyrogallol

First recorded in 1875-80; pyro- + gall(ic)² + -ol¹

Examples for pyrogallol

Tanning materials are divided into two main classes: pyrogallol, Catechol.

Esculin will not luminesce with peroxidase and H2O2, but pyrogallol or gallic acid will.

The pyrogallol method of Preisz also proved to be unreliable in his hands.

Sumach is the other pyrogallol tan of commercial importance.

This is especially well seen in the action of various oxidizers on pyrogallol and H2O2 recorded in Table 10.

Thus the "maximum luminescence pressure" of pyrogallol increases with increase of temperature.

The light from ozone acting on pyrogallol solution is especially bright under certain conditions.

It is the only pyrogallol tannin which does not deposit bloom, or ellagic acid, on the leather.

Table 10 shows the relation between temperature and intensity of luminescence with pyrogallol and various oxidizers.

Myrabolans is one of the most important of the pyrogallol tanning materials.