Definitions for toluenes

toluenes tol·u·ene

Spelling: [tol-yoo-een]
IPA: /ˈtɒl yuˌin/

Toluenes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in toluenes (eelnostu).

Definitions for toluenes

noun

  1. a colorless, water-insoluble, flammable liquid, C 7 H 8 , having a benzenelike odor, obtained chiefly from coal tar and petroleum: used as a solvent in the manufacture of benzoic acid, benzaldehyde, TNT, and other organic compounds.

Origin of toluenes

First recorded in 1870-75; tolu + -ene

Examples for toluenes

From benzene and toluene alone about forty distinct colouring-matters of the rosaniline group are sent into commerce.

Now let us consider some of the transformations which benzene and toluene undergo in the hands of the manufacturing chemist.

A solution of hydrogen chloride in a poorly ionizing medium, like benzene or toluene, is an extremely poor conductor.

Besides a cymene and a toluene, which have already been shown to exist in rosin spirit, metaxylene was found to be present.

That phenomena of this kind may be involved is shown by the remarkable effect of toluene on the autofermentation of yeast.

Other dyes derived directly or indirectly from phenol will take us back once again to toluene.

Already we see that benzene, toluene, solvent naphtha, and burning naphtha are separated from them.

It is possible to start from benzene, toluene or naphthalene.

What then is the effect of toluene on the living yeast-cell?

For the first six months only toluene sling thermometers were used.

Word Value for toluenes
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7

Words with friends

10

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