0 a clear liquid made from petroleum, from which plastics and many chemical products can be made
1 a colorless liquid made from petroleum (= thick oil from under the ground), from which plastics and many chemical products can be made
Benzene, a substance compounded of carbon and hydrogen, obtained by destructive distillation from coal-tar and other organic bodies, used as a substitute for turpentine and for dissolving grease.
If you are after the greatest yield of tar products, you impoverish the gas by taking out the benzene and get a blue instead of a bright yellow flame.
It is very soluble in water, easily soluble in boiling alcohol, much less in cold alcohol, and insoluble in ether, chloroform and benzene.
Remove paint stains with benzene or turpentine, machine oil with cold water and Ivory soap, vaseline with turpentine.
Six atoms of carbon and six of hydrogen put together in a certain way make benzene.
Apart from the benzene alcohols, theaspirene was the compound with the highest concentration in the wines of all three varieties in 2003 vintage.
This sample also contained elevated levels of benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, and xylenes.
Solvent removal during curing process of highly spheric and monodispersed-sized polystyrene capsules from densitymatched emulsions composed of water and benzene/1, 2-dichloroethane.
