"Petroline" is a word in ENGLISH
A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in
India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
Read the complete definitionAn inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
Read the complete definitionMethyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol …
Read the complete definitionA substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer …
Read the complete definitionA liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.
Read the complete definitionA hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the …
Read the complete definitionOne of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.
Read the complete definitionAny one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.
Read the complete definitionA solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.
Read the complete definitionOne of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum.
Read the complete definitionA gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, …
Read the complete definitionA monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and …
Read the complete definitionA limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting …
Read the complete definitionA white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so …
Read the complete definitionA hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. …
Read the complete definitionAny one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called …
Read the complete definitionAny one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because …
Read the complete definitionA hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
Read the complete definitionThe correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a …
Read the complete definitionOne of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so …
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