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- verb Present participle of
naphthalize .
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A small fire having occurred in the Magnetic Observatory, a new building of zinc, for the operation of naphthalizing the illuminating gas, is in preparation, external to the Observatory: and thus one of the possible sources of accidental fire will be removed. ”
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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