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Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..

Boroglyceride :: Boroglyceride (n.) A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic..

Fool :: Fool (n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool..

Metamerism :: Metamerism (n.) The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds..

Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

Telerythin :: Telerythin (n.) A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds..

Dualin :: Dualin (n.) An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion..

Iodide :: Iodide (n.) A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary; as, potassium iodide..

Carboxide :: Carboxide (n.) A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide..

Benzyl :: Benzyl (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively..

Palladic :: Palladic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds..

Thionyl :: Thionyl (n.) The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential constituent of certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl chloride..

Amphid :: Amphid (n.) A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound..

Find :: Find (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance..

Putty :: Putty (n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes..

Selenium :: Selenium (n.) A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9..

Mare :: Mare (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare..

Formula :: Formula (n.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound..

Xenyl :: Xenyl (n.) The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.

Rubidine :: Rubidine (n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type..

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