Carbolic Acid
C₂H₂OH, also called Phenol, Phenic acid, Coal-tar, Creosote. Phenol is a secondary monatomic aromatic alcohol, obtained by the dry distillation of salicylic acid. It is dry distillation of of salicylic sali acid. It is also formed by the dry distillation of coal, in the coal-tar oil. When pure it forms white deliquescent crystals melting at 35° to an oily liquid, which boils at 184°. It has a penetrating odor and burning taste; it is neutral; it coagulates albumen and has powerful antiseptic properties. It is used as a disinfectant, and to preserve meat, etc. It dissolves in alkalies, forming compounds called phenates. Potassium phenate crystallizes in white needles; when it is heated with iodides of ethyl, methyl, etc., double ethers are formed, as methylphenate, C.H.OCH3. Chlorine, bromine, iodine, and nitric acid form with it subiodine, and nitric acid form with it sub- stitution compounds. Phenol is benzene with one molecule of (OH) substituted for one atom of H.
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