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noun - (chemistry) any salt or ester of xanthic acid
| | | xanthene dye |
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noun - Any of a group of brilliant fluorescent yellow to pink to bluish red dyes characterized by the presence of the xanthene nucleus, known sometimes in colorless as well as colored forms, and used chiefly in dyeing textile fibers, in coloring paper, in producing fluorescent effects, and as organic pigments.
| | xanthic |
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adjective
- (colour) of a yellowish colour.
| | xanthic acid |
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noun - (chemistry) any of a class of organic sulphur-containing acids of general formula ROCS2H
| | xe |
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pronoun
- (context, chiefly, internet) That person; a subject-case gender-neutral pronoun.
| | xenon |
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noun
- a heavy, gaseous chemical element (symbol Xe) of the noble gases group with an atomic number of 54.
| | xylene |
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noun
- (chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 262:
- :... proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, in unventilated rooms, and so on ....
| | xylose |
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noun
- a white crystalline substance, a sugar, derived from wood
- (chemistry) One of the pentoses, C5H10O5
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