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quinone


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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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