Crossword-Solution: TEREBENE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Terebene | n. | A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances. |
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| Chemical mixture of acid and turpentine. | 1 answer |
| Expectorant mixture | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
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Sentences with TEREBENE (5)
What is called Terebene, a most useful medicine for winter cough, is produced by the action of sulphuric acid on Turpentine.
The new devices were dismal, such as the vile stuff called terebene, which smoked and smelt more than it illuminated, such as the wax tapers which were coiled round bottles that had seen better days.
Now, tallow dips, lard, wax tapers, terebene, pine-knots, were all represented in the Peloponnesian war by oil.
Etym: [Terebene + phthalic.] (Chem.) Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid.
TEREBENE, ter'[=e]-b[=e]n, _n._ a light-yellow liquid, obtained by treating oil of turpentine with sulphuric acid, used as a disinfectant.--_adj._ TEREB'IC, pertaining to turpentine.--_n._ TER'EBINTH, the turpentine-tree.--_adj._ TEREBINTH'INE.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1956–1988).