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Aniline
noun · 78% connection
An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Cedrene
noun · 78% connection
A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Cetene
noun · 78% connection
An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Colophene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Conyrine
noun · 78% connection
A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Crotonylene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Cyamelide
noun · 78% connection
A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Decyl
noun · 78% connection
A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
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, regarded, polymeric, variety.
Furfurol
noun · 78% connection
A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, hydrocarbon, regarded, polymeric, variety.
