(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:00:50

Pi*nac"o*lin (?), n. [Pinacone + L. oleum oil.] Chem.

A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type.

[Written also pinacoline.]

 

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