Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
naphthalene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) See
naphthalene .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
naphthalene
Etymologies
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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.
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At a bright red heat they yield benzinic carbides, C_nH_ {2n-6}, naphthalin and a little anthracen.
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"Then they don't have to have naphthalin either," said Anna-Felicitas,
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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.
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