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1. Chemistry. An earlier name for amarine n., C21H18N2, isomeric with hydrobenzamide.
2. A commercial name for impure benzene, and often for other volatile inflammable liquid hydrocarbons, esp. for coal-tar naphtha, of which benzene is a chief constituent, and which is used for removing grease-spots, cleaning gloves, etc. Also, less correctly, for a light hydrocarbon obtained by the fractional distillation of crude petroleum, and used to burn in lamps.On the 2nd October 1874 a barge carrying gunpowder and ‘benzoline’ along the Regent's Canal in London was blown up by the accidental ignition of the vapour of the benzoline, causing much destruction in the neighbourhood.
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1874 Daily News 8 Oct. 3/1 The invoice of the Tilbury's cargo was examined by the jury. It included a case of drugs which..might contain benzoline.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 338 Its power of dissolving greasy matters, has caused it [benzole] to become an article of commerce under the name of benzoline.
3. attributive (in sense 2), as in benzoline lamp (introduced about 1864).
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