Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former name for naphthylamine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Same as
naphthylamine .
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- noun chemistry
naphthylamine
Etymologies
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From naphthalene and toluidine.
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Examples
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Thanks to advances in microscopy, he knew that naphthalidine, a derivative of coal tar, differed from quinine by only a couple of hydrogen and oxygen molecules—water, in other words.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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It wouldn’t be as simple as adding water to the naphthalidine, he said, but with enough time at the bench, he was sure he could make medicine out of coal tar.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Perkin soon determined that all the chemistry in the world wasn’t going to convince naphthalidine to turn into quinine.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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