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Word: hexylresorcinol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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Usage:

...with poisons-salts, acids, fats, with blue canisters of strange mineral, with bottles of green, fatal syrup. They sought that latter-day elixir, a fluid deadly to germs, harmless to man, a perfect antiseptic. Last week, came the announce- ment that they had found and tested such a germicide-hexylresorcinol, 50 times as powerful as carbolic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hexylresorcinol | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...acid) certain "fatty" acids were linked. The result was, at first, both an excellent antiseptic and a deadly poison. As the molecular proportion was changed, the antiseptic properties increased, the poisonous effect diminished. At last, with great difficulty, six atomical groups of the acids were united with the resorcinol, hexylresorcinol formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hexylresorcinol | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

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