(perhaps) = bog-butter n. at bog, n.1 compounds 4.

A black solid substance, burning like a resin, supposed to be the solid constituent of asphalt. It is an oxygenated hydro-carbon.

The oily volatile component of asphalt, originally considered to consist of a single hydrocarbon and later discovered to be a mixture of…

A yellowish oil obtained by distilling resin and consisting largely of hydrocarbons.

An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, obtained by heating beeswax. Also called melissylene.

Each of four isomeric gaseous alkenes, having the general formula C4H8, which are used as reagents in chemical synthesis, esp. in the production of…

= terebilene, n.

A supposed radical of carbon and hydrogen, formerly regarded as combining with nitrogen to form nicotine.

a fatty hydrocarbon found in the peatbogs of Ireland.

= melene, n.

Name given by Berthelet to the least volatile of the hydrocarbons obtained by passing benzene vapour through a red-hot porcelain tube. Watts Dict.…

The oily constituent of tolu-balsam, C10H16.

(See quots.)

(See quot. 1881.)

= melene, n.

= propadiene, n. Now historical.

A crystalline hydrocarbon with a penetrating odour, used as a starting material in the manufacture of various plastics and resins.

Originally: the carbonaceous material in oil shale that gives rise to crude oil on distillation. In later use extended to denote any organic…

A yellow, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H12, whose molecule consists of five fused aromatic rings, which occurs in coal tar and from which certain…

A saturated tetracyclic steroid hydrocarbon, C18H30, which is the parent compound of the naturally occurring oestrogens.

A hydrocarbon, (CH)20, in which the carbon atoms of each molecule lie at the vertices of a regular dodecahedron; also, any derivative or related…

A red, crystalline hydrocarbon which is an isomer of benzene (C6H6) and has a molecule containing six carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a…