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Acrolein
noun · 78% connection
A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Arrowroot
noun · 78% connection
A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a simil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Astragalus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Bead
noun · 78% connection
A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Blood money
unknown · 78% connection
Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Boracic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Borax
noun · 78% connection
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Boron
noun · 78% connection
A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in sever…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Cespitine
noun · 78% connection
An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Coal tar
unknown · 78% connection
A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Cyanogen
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Dextrin
noun · 78% connection
A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Dextrose
noun · 78% connection
A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Dragantine
noun · 78% connection
A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Erythrite
noun · 78% connection
A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decompos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Eucalyn
noun · 78% connection
An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.
Fluoric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: obtained, borax, containing.