margarone

See also: Margarone

English

Etymology

Older than acetone so not technically containing the -one extracted from it. The margar- comes from margaric acid.

Noun

margarone (countable and uncountable, plural margarones)

1. (chemistry) The ketone of margaric acid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “margarone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• marronage