Definitions for quinone

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quinone qui·none

Spelling: [kwi-nohn, kwin-ohn]

IPA: /kwɪˈnoʊn, ˈkwɪn oʊn/

Quinone is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in quinone (einnoqu).

Definitions for quinone

noun

1. a yellow, crystalline, cyclic unsaturated diketone, C 6 H 4 O 2 , formed by oxidizing aniline or hydroquinone: used chiefly in photography and in tanning leather.
2. any of a class of compounds of this type.

Origin of quinone

First recorded in 1850-55; quin(ic acid) + -one

Examples for quinone

The quinone with which we are at present concerned is anthraquinone.

The various pathological conditions mentioned before may be ascribed to irritation caused by quinone di-imine.

The compound is readily prepared by the action of sulphurous acid or any other reducing agent on the quinone.

Thus there is quinone itself, or benzoquinone, which is benzene with two atoms of oxygen replacing two atoms of hydrogen.

Phenanthrene forms a quinone which has been utilized as a source of colouring-matters, but these are comparatively unimportant.

The so-called chrysophanic acid found in Xanthoria (Physcia) parietina is not an acid but a quinone and is better termed physcion.