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Webster 1913 Edition
Quinone
Qui′none
,Noun.
[
Quin
ine + 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
.]