glycerol Chem.
(ˈglɪsərɒl)
[f. glycer-ine + -ol (the characteristic suffix of the names of alcohols).]
= glycerine 1.
| 1884 Roscoe & Schorlemmer Treat. Chem. III. ii. 344 Glycerine, or, as we now prefer to term it, glycerol. 1889 in Muir & Morley Watts' Dict. Chem. |