irone
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 5
Definition of irone
1 sense · 1 part of speech
noun
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Any of several ketones, or a mixture of such, found in orris oil (oil extracted from iris roots), used as odorants in perfumes.
“As is well known, Irone is the principal odoriferous constituent of Orris Butter, the essential oil obtained from Orris Root by steam distillation.”
“1951 [D. Van Nostrand], Frank C. Whitmore, Organic Chemistry, Volume One: Part I: Aliphatic Compounds, Part II: Alicyclic Compounds, 2nd Edition, 2012, Dover republication, page 565, The previously accepted cycloheptene structure for the irones has been shown recently to be wrong.”
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