a. Chem. (Arbitrarily f. Gr. θύμο-ν THYME, or THYMOL + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or derived from thymol. Thymotic acid, C11H14O3, a white, loosely coherent, crystalline solid, having a silky luster, prepared from thymol. Also thymotic alcohol, C11H16O2; thymotic aldehyde, C11H14O2. Hence Thymotate, a salt of thymotic acid; Thymotide, C11H12O2.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 796. Thymotic acid heated with caustic baryta is resolved into thymol and carbonic anhydride…. The thymotates of the alkali-metals are soluble in water. Ibid. (1873), Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 11), 824. Thymotic and Thymol-carbonic Acids are produced by the action of sodium and carbon-dioxide on thymol.
