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-ol
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as car…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Amyl
noun · 78% connection
A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Borax
noun · 78% connection
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Cachalot
noun · 78% connection
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Carbinol
noun · 78% connection
Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the ty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Cerotin
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Cetene
noun · 78% connection
An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Cetin
noun · 78% connection
A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Cetyl
noun · 78% connection
A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Cone
noun · 78% connection
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Dextrose
noun · 78% connection
A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Dioxindol
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Dolomite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Eikosane
noun · 78% connection
A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Ethereal
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
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: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
Fusel oil
unknown · 78% connection
A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: higher, alcohols, paraffine, series, obtained.
