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Pinacol?
« on: January 18, 2005, 04:12:46 PM »
where this name come from?
why this compound has this name?
thank you for answering

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Re:Pinacol?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2005, 06:48:28 PM »
I think it is derived from the Greek word for "tablet" or "slab" since the compound pinacol (at one time called pinacone) crystallizes in large tablets from aqueous acetone after treatment with sodium amalgam.
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