Definitions for quinones

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quinones qui·none

Spelling: [kwi-nohn, kwin-ohn]

IPA: /kwɪˈnoʊn, ˈkwɪn oʊn/

Quinones is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in quinones (einnoqsu).

Definitions for quinones

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 quinones

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

Examples for quinones

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

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

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

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