English Explanatory Dictionary

colophene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. (chemistry) A colorless oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony (rosin), regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene.

Word forms

colophene colophenes

Etymology

From colophony + -ene.

Synonyms

diterebene
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