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-one
unknown · 78% connection
A termination indicating that the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Amylene
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Cachalot
noun · 78% connection
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Caoutchin
noun · 78% connection
An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Cetyl
noun · 78% connection
A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Collidine
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Cumene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Diamylene
noun · 78% connection
A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Elayl
noun · 78% connection
Olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethyle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Emulsify
verb · 78% connection
To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Ethenyl
noun · 78% connection
A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; -- called also vinyl. See Vinyl.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Etherin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Etherol
noun · 78% connection
An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Ethylene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Ethylidene
unknown · 78% connection
An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Eupione
noun · 78% connection
A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil con…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Hecdecane
noun · 78% connection
A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
Heptylene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, c16h32, ethylene, series.
