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mercocresols (medicine) and Aden (sh)


mercocresols (medicine)


mercocresols


A mixture consisting of equal parts by weight of sec-amyltricresol and o-hydroxyphenylmercuric chloride; it possesses fungicidal, germicidal, and bacteriostatic action.


Aden (sh)




Seaport city (pop., 1994: 398,300), southern Yemen, on the Gulf of Aden.

It was a principal terminus of the spice road of western Arabia for about 1,000 years before the 3rd century AD. It then became a trading centre under Yemeni, Ethiopian, and Arab control. The Ottoman Empire captured the city in 1538, and the British (who established a garrison there around 1800) governed it as part of India (1839-1937). It grew in importance as a coaling station and transshipment point after the opening of the Suez Canal. It was separated from India and made a crown colony in 1937, incorporated in the Federation of South Arabia (1963-67), and served as the capital of South Yemen until that republic's merger with North Yemen in 1990.