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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
styrol .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also
phenyl ethylene ,vinyl benzene ,styrol ,styrene , andcinnamene .
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- noun organic chemistry, dated
styrene
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Examples
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But there are also produced, in some cases by secondary changes, ethylene, methane, naphthalene, styrolene, anthracene, and homologues of several of these hydrocarbons, while carbon and hydrogen are separated.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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The first, which came over between 143° and 145°, and which amounted to 80 per cent. of the whole, consisted of pure cinnamene or styrolene (C_ H_ .
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various
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