capnomor
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek [Term?] "smoke" + "part".
Noun edit
capnomor (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry, dated) A colourless oil with a peculiar odour, obtained from beech tar.
- 1868-1881, Henry Watts, A Dictionary of Chemistry
- To this class of products belong the two empyreumatic oils which Faraday obtained from fat ; also eupione , creosote , picamar , and capnomor
- 1868-1881, Henry Watts, A Dictionary of Chemistry