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Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary resorcin + -ol
: a sweetish crystalline phenol C 6 H 4 (OH) 2 that turns pink in air, that is obtained from various resins (as galbanum or asafetida) or tannins by degradation but is usually made by fusion of meta -benzene-disulfonic acid with sodium hydroxide, and that is used chiefly in making dyes, pharmaceuticals, phenolic resins especially for adhesives, and rubber products and in medicine in the treatment of skin diseases; meta -dihydroxy-benzene