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A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.

because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.

(C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.

A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.

oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14

A fat, liquid at ordinary temperatures, but solidifying at temperatures below 0° C., found abundantly in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms (see Palmitin). It dissolves solid fats, especially at 30-40° C. Chemically, olein is a glyceride of oleic acid; and, as three molecules of the acid are united to one molecule…

The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.

A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.

An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.

A liquid or semiliquid preparation extracted (as from capsicum, cubebs, or ginger) by means of ether, and consisting of fixed or volatile oil holding resin in solution. -- O`le*o*res"in*ous, a.

A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. Thomson.

Metal; as, the liquid ore. [R.] Milton. Ore hearth, a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; -- also called Scotch hearth. Raymond.

Designating a complex ether, C.(OC2H5)4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4.

ariety 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.