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-one
unknown · 78% connection
A termination indicating that the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Amylene
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
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: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Basin
noun · 78% connection
An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Butylene
noun · 78% connection
Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Chrysene
noun · 78% connection
One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Coal tar
unknown · 78% connection
A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Coaly
noun · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Coridine
noun · 78% connection
A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an org…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Cresol
noun · 78% connection
Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood ta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Dodecane
noun · 78% connection
Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Faints
n.pl. · 78% connection
The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Heptane
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Heptine
noun · 78% connection
Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Interpolate
verb · 78% connection
To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
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: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
Kerosene
noun · 78% connection
An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence calle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
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: group, three, metameric, hydrocarbons, aromatic.
