tertiary butylhydroquinone

English

Etymology

tertiary butyl +‎ hydroquinone

Alternative forms

• tertiary butyl hydroquinone

Noun

tertiary butylhydroquinone (usually uncountable, plural tertiary butylhydroquinones)

1. (chemistry) An aromatic organic compound that is a type of phenol. It is a derivative of hydroquinone, substituted with a tert-butyl group.
   • 2009 October 4, Pete Wells, “COOKING WITH DEXTER”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     With the fries and McNuggets, we enter the polysyllabic realm of ingredients I don’t keep in my kitchen: mono- and diglycerides, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a number of phosphates, dimethylpolysiloxane.

Synonyms

• TBHQ
• tert-butylhydroquinone
• t-butylhydroquinone