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Word Meanings - MAUVEINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.

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  • ORGANICALNESS
    The quality or state of being organic.
  • VALUABLENESS
    The quality of being valuable.
  • OBTAINABLE
    Capable of being obtained.
  • OXIDIZABLE
    Capable of being oxidized.
  • ARTIFICIALITY
    The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
  • OXIDIZER
    An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.
  • ARTIFICIALLY
    1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
  • OXIDIZEMENT
    Oxidation.
  • ARTIFICIAL
    1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
  • ANILINE
    An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely
  • TOLUIDINE
    Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline
  • OXIDIZE
    To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically: To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid. To remove hydrogen from , as
  • ORGANICALLY
    In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.
  • ARTIFICIALNESS
    The quality of being artificial.
  • ORGANICAL
    Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.
  • OBTAINMENT
    The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
  • ARTIFICIALIZE
    To render artificial.
  • MIXTURE
    A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved. (more info) 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a
  • OBTAIN
    1. To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer. Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify
  • ORGANIC
    Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic
  • INOXIDIZE
    To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.
  • BORDEAUX MIXTURE
    A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
  • INORGANICAL
    Inorganic. Locke.
  • MAUVANILINE
    See MAUVE
  • REOBTAINABLE
    That may be reobtained.
  • REOBTAIN
    To obtain again.
  • INORGANIC
    Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
  • TELEORGANIC
    Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
  • LEUCANILINE
    A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.
  • PROTOXIDIZE
    To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
  • MELANILINE
    A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.
  • INVALUABLE
    Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.

 

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