noun
Etymology
Origin of toluol
Example Sentences
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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
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
The toluol was used mostly in the manufacture of trinitrotoluol for use in Europe.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
It will be necessary first to dissolve everything out by, say, hot turpentine, then successively treat the residue with bisulphide carbon, benzol, ether, chloroform, naphtha, toluol, alcohol, and other probable solvents.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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