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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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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- noun chemistry A colourless oily liquid, formerly obtained by
distillation ofcolophony , and regarded as apolymeric form ofterebenthene .
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colophony + -ene?
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