Word Meanings - PARANTHRACENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.

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• MODIFICATION
  The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
• ISOMERIC
  Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• INERTLY
  Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.
• INERTNESS
  1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke. 2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
• INERT
  1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert. 2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay.
• ANTHRACENE
  A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its
• INERTITUDE
  Inertness; inertia. Good.
• ANTHRACENE OIL
  A heavy green oil , which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.
• INERTION
  Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude. These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever. E. Darwin.
• PARANTHRACENE
  An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
• REMODIFICATION
  The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.
• ANISOMERIC
  Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.