"Pyroxylic" is a word in ENGLISH
Derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in
designating crude wood spirit.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone …
Read the complete definitionA thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, …
Read the complete definitionConsisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is produced in the distillation of wood, in the fermentation …
Read the complete definitionA nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as …
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