Crossword-Solution: GLYCOL
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| Glycol | n. | A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin. |
| Glycol | n. | Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type. |
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| Basis of antifreeze | 1 answer |
| Ethylene __: antifreeze | 1 answer |
| Ethylene alcohol | 1 answer |
| another name (not in technical usage) for a diol | 1 answer |
| Alcohol type | 2 answers |
| Antifreeze ingredient | 2 answers |
| Antifreeze compound | 3 answers |
| Antifreeze additive | 10 answers |
| Antifreeze. | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with GLYCOL (5)
Ztg.,_ 1913, 73, 733.] considers resit a polymerised hydroxybenzylmethylene glycol anhydride; Raschig, a diphenylmethane derivative (e.g., dihydroxydiphenylmethane alcohol); Wohl [Footnote: _Ber.,_ 1912, 45, 2046.] considers them polymerisation products of methylene derivatives of tautomeric phenol.
The chemical name of this product is "polymerized oxybenzyl methylene glycol anhydride," but nobody calls it that, not even chemists.
Glycolic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), and produced artificially in many ways, as by the oxidation of glycol, -- whence its name.
Etym: [Glycol + anhydride.] (Chem.) Defn: A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid.
Etym: [Glycol + uric.] (Chem.) Defn: Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.
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