Oil-of-turpentine synonyms

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turpentine (related)
A thin, easily vaporized oil that is distilled from the wood or resin of certain pine trees. It is used as a paint thinner and solvent. Chemical formula: C10H16.
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spirit of turpentine
volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally
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turps
(Slang, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic drink.
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Oil-of-turpentine Sentence Examples

  • It is insoluble in water,' but readily soluble in carbon bisulphide, sulphur chloride and oil of turpentine.

  • A fine oil of turpentine is distilled from the crude material; the residue forms a coarse resin.

  • It thus possesses the same composition as the hydrocarbon of gutta-percha and as that of oil of turpentine and other terpenes which are the chief components of essential oils.

  • When solid caoutchouc is strongly heated it breaks down, without change in its ultimate composition, into a number of simpler liquid hydrocarbons of the terpene class (dipentene, di-isoprene, isoprene, &c.), of which one, isoprene (C5H8), is of simpler structure than oil of turpentine (C 10 H 16), from which it can also be obtained by the action of an intense heat.

  • He began his experimental work in 1841 with investigations of oil of turpentine and tolu balsam, in the course of which he discovered toluene.

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