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Betaine
noun · 78% connection
A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
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: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Derivative
adjective · 78% connection
Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Erythrine
noun · 78% connection
A colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
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: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
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: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Glycosine
noun · 78% connection
An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Hexine
noun · 78% connection
A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Hexylene
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Hydroquinone
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Imide
noun · 78% connection
A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Isomeric
adjective · 78% connection
Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same pro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Litmus
noun · 78% connection
A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Melaniline
noun · 78% connection
A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline sub…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Metamerism
noun · 78% connection
The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Orcein
noun · 78% connection
A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is clo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Orpiment
noun · 78% connection
Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mine…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.
Pentamethylene
noun · 78% connection
A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, hydrocarbon, derivative, metameric, orcin.