noun
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Origin of toluol
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War boomed the Koppers business because it cut off the German supply of such explosive coal derivatives as ammonia, benzol, toluol.
From Time Magazine Archive
A variation of the same process is now used by Humble Oil in a new plant which makes 30,000,000 gallons of synthetic toluol a year for TNT.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well might the company contend that "treason" was a queer name for a deal that gave the U.S. buna, aviation gas, toluol.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may, of course, be chemical, but it looks as if it were organic, since it resists cold, although not heat, and can be destroyed by phenol, toluol, and other antiseptics.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
Iodine-eosine is a red compound easily soluble in water, which is not soluble in ether, chloroform, or toluol.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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