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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A viscid, aromatic hydrocarbon-oil obtained by the rapid distillation of colophony, or by distilling oil of turpentine with strong sulphuric acid, the product being in both cases afterward purified.

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  1. n. chemistry A colourless oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony, and regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Chem.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

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  1. colophony +‎ -ene? (Wiktionary)

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  1. diterebene
  1. colophilene

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