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tertiary butylhydroquinones

tertiary butylhydroquinones is the plural of tertiary butylhydroquinone.

Meaning of tertiary butylhydroquinone

Noun

tertiary butylhydroquinone (usually uncountable, plural tertiary butylhydroquinones)

  1. (usually) An aromatic organic compound that is a type of phenol. It is a derivative of hydroquinone, substituted with a tert-butyl group.
    • With the fries and McNuggets, we enter the polysyllabic realm of ingredients I don’t keep in my kitchen: mono- and diglycerides, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a number of phosphates, dimethylpolysiloxane.2009 October 4, Pete Wells, “COOKING WITH DEXTER”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    TBHQ, tert-butylhydroquinone, t-butylhydroquinone

Questions about tertiary butylhydroquinones

What is tertiary butylhydroquinones the plural of?
Tertiary butylhydroquinones is the plural of tertiary butylhydroquinone.

Words near tertiary butylhydroquinones in the dictionary

  1. tertiary amine
  2. tertiary amines
  3. tertiary amyl
  4. tertiary butyl
  5. tertiary butylhydroquinone
  6. tertiary butylhydroquinones
  7. tertiary care
  8. tertiary college
  9. tertiary colleges
  10. tertiary color
  11. tertiary colors

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