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  • noun Plural form of hydroquinone.

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Examples

  • Quinones make them distasteful, so the insects evolve to produce more of them and to produce other defensive chemicals, including hydroquinones.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

  • The depression becomes a reservoir with secretory glands supplying hydroquinones into it.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

  • By a comparison with menadione (which has one hydroxyl group less) it was suggested that plumbagin may prevent NADPH and ascorbate-induced microsomal lipid peroxidation by forming hydroquinones.

    Find Me A Cure 2009

  • 3. Hydrogen peroxide becomes mixed with the hydroquinones.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

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