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EUPION (Gr. eu, well, rhea, fat)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 900 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EUPION (Gr. eu, well, rhea, fat)

EUPION (Gr. eu, well,
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RHEA
rhea,
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FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)
fat) , a

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HYDROCARBON

hydrocarbon of the

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PARAFFIN

paraffin

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SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, probably a pentane, C5H12, discovered by,K .

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Reichenbach in

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wood-

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tar . It is also formed in the destructive

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DISTILLATION (from the Lat. distillare, more correctly destillare, to drop or trickle down)

distillation of many substances, as wood,

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COAL

coal, caoutchouc, bones,

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RESIN (through O.Fr. resine, modern reline, from Lat. resina, prcbably Latinized from Greek Pirivrt, resin)

resin and the fixed

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OILS (adopted from the Fr. oile, mod. huile, Lat. oleum, olive oil)

oils . It is a colourless highly volatile and inflammable liquid, having at zo° C. a specific gravity of o.65 .

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