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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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Erythrite
noun · 78% connection
A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decompos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Fluorescin
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Glycoluril
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Hydrazine
noun · 78% connection
Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Indol
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Isatide
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Leuc-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Leucaniline
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
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: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.
Melilotic
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sweet clover or melilot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: colorless, crystalline, substance, obtained, reduction.