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th; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are polymeric with each other.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. [Written also cedren.]

lorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.

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

A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.

A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.

An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.

A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white.

he same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: (a) Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, but with different molecular weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric (polymeric) with each other in this sense. See Polymeric. (b) Metamer…

ed by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.

A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.

A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.

The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.

Polymeric. [Obs.]