colophene

See also: colophène

English

Etymology

colophony +‎ -ene

Noun

colophene (countable and uncountable, plural colophenes)

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

Synonyms

• diterebene

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “colophene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)