- Carbolic acid - Weak acid a disinfectant - Weak acid, a disinfectant - A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced
by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal,
etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar. - Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which
phenol proper is the type.
- Germ killer - Alt. of Antiseptical - A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or
destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic
acid, alcohol, cinchona.
- Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid
formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now
made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of
carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline
substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the
treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid.