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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given to aniline by Zinin in 1840, when he prepared it by reducing nitrobenzene with ammonium sulphid.
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About the same time N.N. Zinin found that on reducing nitrobenzene, a base was formed which he named benzidam.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Zinan in 1840, experimenting along the same lines, produced another compound terming it benzidam.
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