A component or derivative of eupion; a volatile hydrocarbon found in coal tar distillates.
From eupion plus a chemical suffix, possibly '-tone' (like ketone), creating a term for a specific compound isolated from coal tar products.
Eupittone shows how 19th-century chemists created whole families of related names—eupion begat eupione begat eupittone, like a genealogy of increasingly specific tar products!
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