cerotene
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cerotum (“a pomade”). See cerate.
Noun edit
cerotene (usually uncountable, plural cerotenes)
- (organic chemistry) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cerotene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)