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camphine

Meaning of "camphine" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CAMPHINE

ˈkæmfiːn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAMPHINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Camphine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CAMPHINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Camphine

Camphine was the trade name of a purified spirit of turpentine formerly used for lamps, generally prepared by distilling turpentine with quicklime. Camphine gives a very brilliant light when burned in a lamp, but, to prevent smoking, the lamp must have a very strong draught. To achieve this special lamps were constructed, so called Vesta lamps.

Definition of camphine in the English dictionary

The definition of camphine in the dictionary is rectified oil of turpentine.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAMPHINE

buprenorphine · caffein · caffeine · camphene · clomiphene · dauphine · feen · graphene · Josephine · morphine · olefin · paraffine · phene · phosphine · polyolefin · seraphine · sphene · thiophene · toxaphene · trephine

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAMPHINE

camper van · Campese · campesino · campestral · campfire · campground · camphane · camphene · camphire · camphor · camphor ball · camphor ice · camphor laurel · camphor tree · camphoraceous · camphorate · camphorated · camphorated oil · camphoric · camphoric acid

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAMPHINE

apomorphine · chine · diacetylmorphine · diamorphine · didelphine · elaphine · fax machine · machine · moonshine · nalorphine · paramorphine · Rhine · sewing machine · shine · sunshine · sylphine · time machine · tragelaphine · washing machine · whine

Synonyms and antonyms of camphine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «camphine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAMPHINE

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The translations of camphine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «camphine» in English.
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camphine
1,325 millions of speakers
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camphine
570 millions of speakers
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camphine
510 millions of speakers
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camphine
380 millions of speakers
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camphine
280 millions of speakers
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camphine
278 millions of speakers
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camphine
270 millions of speakers
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camphine
260 millions of speakers
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camphine
220 millions of speakers
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Camphine
190 millions of speakers
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Camphin
180 millions of speakers
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camphine
130 millions of speakers
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camphine
85 millions of speakers
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Camphine
85 millions of speakers
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camphine
80 millions of speakers
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camphine
75 millions of speakers
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कॅम्फिन
75 millions of speakers
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camphine
70 millions of speakers
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camphine
65 millions of speakers
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camphine
50 millions of speakers
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camphine
40 millions of speakers
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camphine
30 millions of speakers
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camphine
15 millions of speakers
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camphine
14 millions of speakers
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camphine
10 millions of speakers
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camphine
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAMPHINE»

Discover the use of camphine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to camphine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Jurist
The P^eat CAMPHINE LAMP gives a light of surpassing power, softnipss, and purity, without any kind of grease -or dirt; smoke -or smell, i TKe Lamp is simply and beautifully constructed, aud can b« lit led to any def scription of lamp pedestal ...
2
The household encyclopedia
forests, camphine has been long in use in the United States for lighting shops and public buildings, and it seems to have been from that country that the practice was borrowed and introduced into England. When the import duty on turpentine ...
3
Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences
The mode of procedure preferred by the inventor is to take the vulcanized gum and cut or reduce it to small pieces (the smaller the better) and steep it in camphine from two to fourteen days. The length of time for steeping will depend in a great ...
4
Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations
CAMPHINE LAMPS. 904 breadth of the camp. In front of the line were the tents of the legionary tribunes and of those officers among the allies who had corresponding rank. Before the tribunes' tents was the principal street, 100 feet wide, ...
George Dodd, Charles Knight, 1851
5
New Receipts for Cooking
To use it, scrape -down a sufficiency, and spread it on the grease spot. Let it rest awhile ; then brush it off, and scrape and apply some more. A few applications will generally remove the grease. TO EXTRACT GREASE WITH CAMPHINE OIL.
Eliza Leslie, 2008
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Journal of the Franklin Institute
... I have constructed a large iron cylinder, in which the sodium and its impure admixtures are heated to fusion, below the surface of naphtha or camphine, and a piston or plunger being then forced down by a powerful screw or hydraulic press, ...
7
Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American ...
Soon afterwards, a mixture of alcohol and turpentine, popularly known as camphene, camphine, teveline, and palmetto oil, appeared for general use and gradually replaced lard oil. Not only did camphene give off more light without ever flaring ...
Robert B. Outland, 2004
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JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
the results of which distillation is a liquid I denominate camphine." A still is described which is so constructed as to allow only the lighter parts of the fluid to pass over to the condenser, and the following claim is then made. '' What I claim as my ...
THOMAS P. JONES, M. D., 1840
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Birmingham and Midland Hardware District
CAMPHINE AND MODERATOR murs. 335 the introduction of Palmer's Candle Lamp. This variety of lamp, it is almost unnecessary to state, consisted of a tube to hold a candle or candles of various diameters, with a spiral spring in a tube, ...
S. Timmins, 2013
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A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a ...
“Among the man; applications of science to the useful arts, for which the present age is so honorably istinguishcd, fcw_ are more meritorious than the Camphine lamps, by which we can produce a snow-white flame from the cleanly, colorless ...
Andrew Ure, 1853
REFERENCE
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