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gree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.

One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to napthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

h, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.

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

A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.

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 hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.

A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.

egarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.

actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.

A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.

Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.