Word Meanings - MAUVEINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.

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• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• OXIDIZABLE
  Capable of being oxidized.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• OXIDIZER
  An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• OXIDIZEMENT
  Oxidation.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• ANILINE
  An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely
• TOLUIDINE
  Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline
• OXIDIZE
  To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically: To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid. To remove hydrogen from , as
• ORGANICALLY
  In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.
• ARTIFICIALNESS
  The quality of being artificial.
• ORGANICAL
  Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• ARTIFICIALIZE
  To render artificial.
• MIXTURE
  A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved. (more info) 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a
• OBTAIN
  1. To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer. Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify
• ORGANIC
  Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic
• INOXIDIZE
  To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• MAUVANILINE
  See MAUVE
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• TELEORGANIC
  Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
• LEUCANILINE
  A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.
• PROTOXIDIZE
  To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
• MELANILINE
  A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.
• INVALUABLE
  Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.