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Anthracite
noun · 78% connection
A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Basin
noun · 78% connection
An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Boil
verb · 78% connection
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Boiled
adjective · 78% connection
Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Bovey coal
unknown · 78% connection
A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Bullition
verb · 78% connection
The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Chrysene
noun · 78% connection
One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Coaly
noun · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Decoct
verb · 78% connection
To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Ditolyl
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
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: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Feldspath
noun · 78% connection
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Fluorene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Gelatine
noun · 78% connection
Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous coll…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Hesperetin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Hydrocarbostyril
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quino…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Hyoscyamine
noun · 78% connection
An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.
Laurin
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, hydrocarbon, complex, structure.