Paraffin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: paraffin Page: 3Dodecane
Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons C12H26 of the paraffin series...
Endecane
One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series C11H24 found as a constituent of petroleum...
ethane
A gaseous hydrocarbon C2H6 forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas It is the second member of the paraffin series and its most important derivatives are common alcohol ethyl alcohol acetaldehyde ether and acetic acid Called also dimethyl...
Ethyl
A monatomic hydrocarbon radical C2H5 of the paraffin series forming the essential radical of ethane and of common alcohol and ether...
Eupione
A limpid oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances specifically an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series...
Hecdecane
A white semisolid spermaceti like hydrocarbon C16H34 of the paraffin series found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon called also hexadecane...
Hendecane
A hydrocarbon C11H24 of the paraffin series so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule Called also endecane undecane...
Carbinol
Methyl alcohol CH3OH also by extension any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type...
Cosmoline
A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum essentially the same as vaseline but of somewhat stiffer consistency and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines a kind of petroleum jelly...
Dipropyl
One of the hexane paraffins found in petroleum consisting of two propyl radicals See Hexane...
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