Word Meanings - ANTHRACENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its

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• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• HYDROCARBON
  A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
• NAPHTHALENE
  A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SOLIDIFY
  To make solid or compact. Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem. H. Spencer.
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• SOLIDLY
  In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SOLIDISM
  The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
• SOLID
  A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides. Solid of revolution. See Revolution, n., 5. (more info) 1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance
• SOLIDNESS
  1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies. 2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
• SOLIDIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.
• SOLID-DRAWN
  Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.
• SOLIDIFICATION
  Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.
• SOLIDARY
  Having community of interests and responsibilities. Men are solidary, or copartners; and not isolated. M. Arnold.
• SOLIDUNGULAR
  Solipedous.
• HYDROCARBONATE
  A hydrocarbon. A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• PARANAPHTHALENE
  Anthracene; -- called also paranaphthaline.
• INSOLIDITY
  Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. Dr. H. More.
• CONSOLIDANT
  Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.
• SURSOLID
  The fifth power of a number; as, a is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. Hutton.