hydroquinone

English

Etymology

hydro- +‎ quinone

Noun

hydroquinone (countable and uncountable, plural hydroquinones)

  1. (organic chemistry) The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild reducing agent in photographic developing; isomeric with catechol and resorcinol.

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