Word Meanings - PHENYLENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hypothetic radical occurring in certain derivatives of benzene; as, phenylene diamine.

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• PHENYLENE
  A hypothetic radical occurring in certain derivatives of benzene; as, phenylene diamine.
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• OCCURRENT
  Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
• RADICAL
  One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative. In politics they were, to use phrase of their own time. "Root-and-Branch men,"
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• RADICALLY
  1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• OCCURRENCE
  1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed
• BENZENE
  A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product
• RADICALISM
  The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.
• DIAMINE
  A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide. Note: In chemical nomenclature, if any amine or diamine is named by prefixing the nitrogen group, the name of the latter
• HYPOTHETIC; HYPOTHETICAL
  Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the
• CERTAINLY
  Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
• RADICALITY
  1. Germinal principle; source; origination. Sir T. Browne. 2. Radicalness; relation to root in essential to a root in essential nature or principle.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• OXYBENZENE
  Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.
• INCERTAIN
  Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.
• ASCERTAINER
  One who ascertains.
• AZOBENZENE
  A substance derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.