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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}.]
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