Crossword-Solution: XYLENE
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| Xylene | n. | Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “XYLENE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Antiseptic ingredient | 1 answer |
| Aviation fuel ingredient | 1 answer |
| Coal tar distillate | 1 answer |
| Compound used in aviation fuel | 1 answer |
| Hydrocarbon derived from wood tar, as its name suggests | 1 answer |
| Isomer found in rubber cement | 1 answer |
| Oily hydrocarbon | 2 answers |
| Compound used in solvents | 2 answers |
| type of hydrocarbon | 4 answers |
| A PASTY CEMENT USED AS AN ADHESIVE OR FILLER | 10 answers |
| COAL tar product | 13 answers |
| Hydrocarbon | 21 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with XYLENE (5)
From this tar are produced a pound of benzine, a pound of toluene, a pound and a half of phenol, six pounds of naphthalene, a small quantity of a material called xylene and half a pound of anthracene, which is used in dyeing.
From benzine are derived fine shades of yellows, browns, oranges, blues, violets and greens; from the toluene are obtained magentas and rich blues; from phenol, beautiful reds; from naphthalene, reds, yellows and blues; from xylene, brilliant scarlets, and from anthracene, yellows and browns.
Their names are: benzene, toluene, xylene, phenol, cresol, naphthalene, anthracene, methyl anthracene, phenanthrene and carbazol.
The musk deer may now be saved from extinction since we can make tri-nitro-butyl-xylene from coal tar.
The chief hydrocarbons found in illuminating gas are, ethylene C_{2}H_{4} crotonylene C_{4}H_{6} propylene C_{3}H_{6} benzene C_{6}H_{6} butylene C_{4}H_{8} toluene C_{7}H_{8} amylene C_{5}H_{10} xylene C_{8}H_{10} acetylene C_{2}H_{2} methane C H_{4} allylene C_{3}H_{4} ethane C_{2}H_{6} A gas which has played a prominent part in lighting is acetylene, produced by the interaction of water and calcium carbide.
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Appears in: NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1999–2017).