A salt or ester of cresol, used in chemical manufacturing and disinfection.
From cresol plus '-ate' suffix indicating a salt or chemical derivative. Coined in 19th-century chemistry as cresol compounds were systematically studied.
Cresylates were the industrial world's way of weaponizing the antimicrobial properties of cresol—making stable compounds you could actually use in factories and hospitals.
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