Associations to the word «Cannizzaro»

Wiktionary

CANNIZZARO REACTION, noun. (organic chemistry) The disproportionation of an aldehyde into an alcohol and a carboxylic acid

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope