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Acetone
noun · 78% connection
A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the disti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Acrolein
noun · 78% connection
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: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
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 It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radic…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, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Ascension
noun · 78% connection
An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Benzene
noun · 78% connection
A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Bitumen
noun · 78% connection
By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
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, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Cetene
noun · 78% connection
An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
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, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Creosote
noun · 78% connection
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: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
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, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Dambonite
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Distill
verb · 78% connection
To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Distillation
noun · 78% connection
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Distillment
noun · 78% connection
Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
Elaeoptene
noun · 78% connection
The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oily, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
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, volatile, hydrocarbon, obtained, distillation.
