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colophene

colophene noun: (chemistry) A colorless oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony (rosin), regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene.

Noun

colophene (countable and uncountable, plural colophenes)

  1. (obsolete) (chemistry) A colorless oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony (rosin), regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene.
    Synonyms:
    diterebene

Synonyms of colophene

Forms of colophene

pluralcolophenes

Origin of colophene

From colophony + -ene.

Questions about colophene

What does colophene mean?
Colophene means (chemistry) A colorless oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony (rosin), regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene.
What part of speech is colophene?
Colophene is a noun.
What is the plural of colophene?
The plural of colophene is colophenes.

Words near colophene in the dictionary

  1. colopexotomies
  2. colopexotomy
  3. colopexy
  4. colophanies
  5. colophany
  6. colophene
  7. colophenes
  8. colophon
  9. colophone
  10. colophones
  11. Colophonian

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