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Webster 1913 Edition


Cymene

Cy′mene

(s?′m?n)
,
Noun.
(Chem.)
A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon,
CH3.C6H4.C3H7
, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; – called also
paracymene
, and formerly
camphogen
.