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variety of xylene in which the two methyl groups are in the ortho position; a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon resembling benzene.

An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.

An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.

by this tendency. Electric osmose, or Electric endosmose (Elec.), the transportation of a liquid through a porous septum by the action of an electric current.

An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.

el of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.

belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62º C.

A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.

ns of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.

A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.

A liquid base, C

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

y the wind from bits blown from frothy lava or from the tips of lava jets or from bits of liquid lava thrown into the air. It often collects in thick masses resembling tow.

paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule.

eric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule.

cifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.

Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may…

To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma.

A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also peucyl.]

The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid, C6H5.O.C2H5.