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Acetylene
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Anthracite
noun · 78% connection
A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Coaly
noun · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Creosol
noun · 78% connection
A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
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: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Eupittone
noun · 78% connection
A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Euxanthin
noun · 78% connection
A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Furile
noun · 78% connection
A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Harmine
noun · 78% connection
An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Helicin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Isatin
noun · 78% connection
An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Lignite
noun · 78% connection
Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Lophine
noun · 78% connection
A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Malonic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Mucic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of gums, dulcite…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Musk
noun · 78% connection
A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the ma…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Naphtha
noun · 78% connection
One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
Odmyl
noun · 78% connection
A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yellow, crystalline, substance, peculiar, unpleasant.
