glycoln.
/ˈɡlʌɪkɒl/, /ˈɡlɪkɒl/, U.S. /ˈɡlaɪˌkɔl/, /ˈɡlaɪˌkɑl/ Chemistry.
(a) Formerly applied to the compound now called ethyl glycol or ethylene alcoholC2H4(OH)2, a sweetish, colourless, inodorous viscid liquid obtained from the decomposition of ethylene dibromide. (b) In wider sense, a general name for the group of fatty diatomic alcohols of which this is the type, having the general structure CnH2n(OH)2.
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1858 H. B. Jones & A. W. Hoffman Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 7) 466 An alcoholic body being formed, to which the name ethylene-alcohol, or glycol, has been given.
1864 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 574.
1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxxiii. 294 Glycol or Ethylene Alcohol... This substance..is obtained by the action of ethylene dibromide upon silver acetate.
1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 649 Diatomic alcohols are designated by the generic name of glycols.
1881 W. Spottiswoode in Nature 8 Dec. 141/2 It was he [sc. Professor Karl Adolph Wurtz] who first made those remarkable alcohols called glycols.
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