What happens when phenol is kept open in the air?
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Answer:Phenol slowly oxidises on exposure to air and turns pink in color. At first, quinone is formed which again reacts with phenol to form a polymerised product phenoquinone which is red in color. There has been research on the oxidation of phenol like wet-air oxidation and catalytic oxidation but those are out of scope.
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