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cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.

Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

A more or less viscid, vellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]…

A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

esembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids.

, regarded as the limit above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid.

A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

asurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. [Low]

A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.

A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.

The coagulated part of any liquid.

breast. Shak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope.

A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.

A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.

A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.