Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
naphthalene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) See
naphthalene .
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- noun
naphthalene
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Examples
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If "naphthalin," a product of coal tar oil, has but the smallest particle of its scent diffused in a room, the special aroma of jonquil and narcissus is at once perceived.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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At a bright red heat they yield benzinic carbides, C_nH_ {2n-6}, naphthalin and a little anthracen.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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"Then they don't have to have naphthalin either," said Anna-Felicitas,
Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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Dr. Carter fully explains that one of the benefits derived from milk diet in Bright's disease is the small residuum deficient in toxic properties, and lays great stress on the employment of intestinal disinfectants or antiseptics that exercise their influence throughout the whole tract, suggesting naphthalin as peculiarly efficacious, thereby cutting off one source of blood contamination at its source.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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