Carbolic Acid Crossword Clue

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- 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.

- To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.

- A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.

- 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, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.

- Aerosol
- Atomise
- Atomiser
- Floral display
- Hose down
- Paint (car)
- A small shoot or branch; a twig.

- 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.

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