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n. Any of three flammable isomeric hydrocarbons, C6H4(CH3)2, obtained from wood and coal tar.

n. A mixture of xylene isomers used as a solvent in making lacquers and rubber cement and as an aviation fuel.

n. Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.

n. Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.

n. Any one of the three metameric dimethyl benzines C6H4 (CH3)2. They are volatile, inflammable liquids obtained from wood-spirit and from coal-tar. Also xylol, xylole.

n. a colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent

"From this tar are produced a pound of benzine, a pound of toluene, a pound and a half of phenol, six pounds of naphthalene, a small quantity of a material called xylene and half a pound of anthracene, which is used in dyeing."

dissolver    dissolving agent    resolvent    solvent    dissolvent   

xylol   

orthoxylene    metaxylene    paraxylene   

chloronitrobenzene    chlorobenzene    dinitrophenol    isomer    toluene    phenol    nitrobenzene    dinitrotoluene    cymene    bromobenzene