noun
Etymology
Origin of toluol
Example Sentences
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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
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
The third kind of high explosives uses as its base toluol.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
Owing to the extraction of benzol and toluol from gas for the purpose of making high-explosives it is stated that consumers may have to put up with some decrease in illuminating power.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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