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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus designed to bring a mixture of the vapor of methyl alcohol (wood-alcohol) and air in contact with heated spongy or finely divided platinum, whereby the alcohol is oxidized to formaldehyde: used in disinfection.
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