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4 unusual facts about phenol


Endicott Hotel

Out of desperation, the chambermaid showed up to his apartment, drank carbolic acid, then knocked on the door of Freal's apartment.

Phenol extraction

Phenol extraction also is a laboratory process to purify a DNA sample.

Phenolic

Phenol (or carbolic acid), a colorless crystalline solid and aromatic compound

Spastic diplegia

Phenol and similar chemical 'nerve deadeners', injected selectively into the over-firing nerves in the legs on the muscle end to reduce spasticity in their corresponding muscles by preventing the spasticity signals from reaching the legs; Phenol wears off every six months.


Comparative genomic hybridization

Standard phenol extraction is used to obtain DNA from test or reference (karyotypically normal individual) tissue, which involves the combination of Tris-Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and phenol with aqueous DNA in equal amounts.

Herbert Henry Dow

Dow Chemical quickly moved to fill the gap, producing magnesium for incendiary flares, monochlorobenzene and phenol for explosives, and bromine for medicines and tear gas.

Irritation

Irritants are typically thought of as chemical agents (for example phenol and capsaicin) but mechanical, thermal (heat), and radiative stimuli (for example ultraviolet light or ionising radiations) can also be irritants.

Phenolic

Phenols, a class of chemical compounds that include phenol

Solvent impregnated resin

One approach by C. van den Berg et al. focuses on the use of impregnated particles for in situ recovery of phenol from Pseudomonas putida fermentations using ionic liquids.

Syringic acid

Laccase and peroxidase induced the polymerization of syringic acid to give a poly(1,4-phenylene oxide) bearing a carboxylic acid at one end and a phenolic hydroxyl group at the other.


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