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Etymology

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From pyrogallol and phthalein.

Noun

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gallein (countable and uncountable, plural galleins)

  1. (organic chemistry) A red crystalline dyestuff obtained by heating pyrogallic acid and phthalic acid together.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 gallein”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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