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Meaning of 'phloroglucin' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Phloroglucin [ n.]
- A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]

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