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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A transparent, highly refractive, solid polymer of styrolene, (C8H8)n, contained in liquid storax and formed spontaneously from styrolene, into which it is retransformed by distillation. Also called metastyrene, metacinnamene, and, incorrectly, metastyrol.

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