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PHENYLAMINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phenylamine mean?
• PHENYLAMINE (noun)
The noun PHENYLAMINE has 1 sense:
1. oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines
Familiarity information: PHENYLAMINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
aminobenzine; aniline; aniline oil; phenylamine
Hypernyms ("phenylamine" is a kind of...):
amine; aminoalkane (a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals)
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