Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
benzene , 1.
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- noun organic chemistry An impure
benzene , used in the arts as asolvent , and for various other purposes.
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- noun a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds
Etymologies
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Examples
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Benzoline is not the same as benzene or benzol, which is one of the products of the dry distillation of coal.
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Commercially, benzene is often known as "benzol" or "benzole"; but it would be generally advantageous if those latter words were only used to mean imperfectly rectified benzene, _i. e._, mixtures of benzene with toluene, &c., such as are more explicitly understood by the terms "90. s benzol" and "50. s benzol."
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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In NYC the Mont Blanc was loaded with (amongst other things) benzol, 544,000 kilograms of highly explosive picric acid, and 226,797 kilograms of TNT.
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Most of the synthetic fuels were produced by hydrogenation and Fischer-Tropsch, but also included alcohol, benzol, and the product of coal tar distillation.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Most of the synthetic fuels were produced by hydrogenation and Fischer-Tropsch, but also included alcohol, benzol, and the product of coal tar distillation.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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II A ethane propane ammonia toluene acetone benzol
8. Lighting Fittings Frank Ponemunski 1991
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By the use of potassium chloride it was found possible to effect a separation with benzol and water, also with naphtha and water.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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This shows a great fall in value from highest to lowest, which seems to have been touched last year, except in the case of pitch and sulphate of ammonia, both of which have marked a considerable decline, even since last year, but it is pleasing to note that the others have shown at least some slight improvement -- crude naphtha and benzol having during the year risen nearly one hundred per cent. in value.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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Absorption of drugs often causes blindness -- tobacco, wood alcohol, lead, used in so many industries; bisulphide of carbon, used in making rubber; nitro-benzol, used in the manufacture of explosives, and some of the anilin dyes.
Five Lectures on Blindness Kate M. Foley
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It is easily soluble in alcohol, ether, benzol, chloroform, sulphide of carbon, and vinegar; to
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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