Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quinone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quinone \Qui"none\, n. [Quinine + ketone.] (Chem.)
A crystalline substance, {C6H4O2} (called also
{benzoketone}), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic
acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any
one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.
[Written also {chinone}, {kinone}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quinone
n : any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including
several that are biologically important as coenzymes or
acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes [syn: {benzoquinone}]
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