A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, w…
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A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.
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A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hy…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radic…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids an…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by ch…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement.; "A configurational ste…
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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: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.The act of mixing; mixture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. B…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.To boil or seethe; to cook.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinna…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glyceri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquesce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicinal, preparation, mixing, dissolving, substance.A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decompos…
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