Turpentine Synonyms

tûrpən-tīn
Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. oil-of-turpentine
  2. turps
  3. oleoresin
  4. terebinth extract
  5. Chian turpentine
  6. spirits of turpentine
  7. thinner
  8. gum terpentine
  9. mineral-spirits
  10. paint thinner
  11. spirit of turpentine

Words Related to Turpentine

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Turpentine Sentence Examples

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

  • Other subjects on which he published papers were the inflammation of turpentine and other essential oils by nitric acid, and the methods of embalmment practised by the Egyptians.

  • The leased convicts are employed in the turpentine and lumber industries and in the phosphate works.

  • 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.

  • Less known turpentines are obtained from the mountain pine, P. Pumilio, the stone pine, P. Cembra, the Aleppo pine, P. halepensis, &c. The so-called Canada balsam, from Abies balsamea, is also a true turpentine.

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