NAPHTHA
\nˈafθə], \nˈafθə], \n_ˈa_f_θ_ə]\
Definitions of NAPHTHA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, -- used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc.
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The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, -- used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A clear, easily evaporating, inflammable liquid obtained from petroleum, and classed between gasoline and benzine; rock oil.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A bituminous substance, found in Persia, Calabria, Sicily, &c. It is liquid, limpid, of a yellowish-white colour, a smell slightly resembling that of oil of turpentine and lighter than water. It resembles petroleum in its properties and has beer chiefly used as an external application; although occasionally as an anthelmintic and in inhalation in phthisis pulmonalis. Also, Aether.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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tinctura quininae ammoniata
- A preparation made by dissolving quinin sulphate in alcohol [Br. Ph.].