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A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.
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The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the gro…
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into const…
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the…
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) the negative univalent acyl radical CHO that occurs in aldehydes
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a grou…
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.(chemistry) a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic law
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry.Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.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: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substanc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.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: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood ta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.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: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.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: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, oily, substance, c4h4o, obtained.
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