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Definition of Photogen
1. n. A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene. It is obtained by distilling coal, paraffin, etc., and is used as a lubricant, illuminant, etc.
Definition of Photogen
1. Noun. (chemistry) A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene, used as a lubricant, illuminant, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Photogen
1. a light paraffin oil [n -S]
Medical Definition of Photogen
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Photogen
Literary usage of Photogen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Petroleum: Comprising Its Origin, Geology by Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charls Albert Ashburner (1887)
"40. provided with a stirring apparatus, serves for treating the crude photogen
with sulphuric acid; the lower one of iron, for the mixture with soda-ley, ..."
2. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1867)
"In preparing photogen from any of the sources enumerated, ... In some instances
the solar oil and photogen are with advantage prepared separately, ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"... oil or of petroleum as sources of spirit, photogen, lubricating oil, and paraffin.
The author placed no dependence on the process of igniting the coal, ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Petroleum: Comprising Its Origin, Geology by Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charls Albert Ashburner (1887)
"To prepare photogen ... All distillates below 0.770 and above 0.850 are almost
entirely worthless for the fabrication of photogen, as the first, ..."
5. The Intellectual Observer (1864)
"ON THE photogen OILS. BY J. w. M'GAULEY. The Natural Products.—The fluid bitumens
obtained native, and those derived from coal and shale, are believed to be ..."
6. The Chemical News (1860)
"The article photogen is an illustration. It is a well written, practical article,
which affords all the information on the subject which a reader can desire ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"On the industrial working of lignites for the preparation of photogen, ...
Further contributions to the manufacture of photogen, solar oil and tion of ..."
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