Crossword-Solution: XYLIDINE
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| Xylidine | n. | Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are called the amido xylenes. |
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Etym: [Phlorol + quinone.] (Chem.) Defn: A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.
Note: The xylidine of commerce, used in making certain dyes, consists chiefly of the derivatives of paraxylene and metaxylene.
Etym: [Xylene + quinone.] (Chem.) Defn: Any one of a group of quinone compounds obtained respectively by the oxidation of certain xylidine compounds.
Thus it was observed that the toluidine colour was redder than the aniline colour, and it was a natural inference that the xylidine colour would be still redder.
The isolation of coal-tar xylene (which is a mixture of three isomeric hydrocarbons) is easily effected by fractional distillation with a rectifying column, and by nitration and reduction, in the same way as in the manufacture of aniline, xylidine is placed at the disposal of the colour-maker.