Toluene

Definition: Toluene

Toluene

Noun

1. A colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels.

Note: Toluene \Tol"u*ene\, noun. [Tolu benzene.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Toluene

Domain	Definition
Chemistry	Light mobile liquid hydrocarbon that resembles benzene. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Toluene

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Toluene is a clear liquid aromatic hydrocarbon with a distinctive smell. Its chemical formula is C₆H₅CH₃. Also called methylbenzene or phenylmethane, it is used as an octane booster in fuel, as a solvent in paints and paint thinners, rubber, printing, adhesives, cosmetics, fingernail polish, lacquers, leather tanning and perfumes, and to produce phenol and TNT. It is also used as a raw material for toluene diisocyanate, which is used in the manufacture of polyurethane foams.

Toluene occurs naturally in crude oil and in the tolu tree. It is also produced in the process of making gasoline and other fuels from crude oil and making coke from coal.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toluene."

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Synonym: Toluene

Synonym: methylbenzene (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Toluene

English words defined with "toluene": benzyl, benzyl group, benzyl radical ♦ Ditolyl ♦ Light oil ♦ Orcin, Oxytoluene ♦ Sulphinide ♦ Thiotolene, TNT, Toluic, toluic acid, Toluidine, Toluole, Tolyl, Tolylene, trinitrotoluene. (references)

Specialty definitions using "toluene": acid-wash operator, agitator operator, Aromatics, Azoarcus ♦ benzene operator, BENZENE-WASHER OPERATOR, benzol operator ♦ chief operator, chief operator, hydroformer ♦ extraction supervisor ♦ fractionation operator, head, fractionation supervisor ♦ SUPERVISOR, PURIFICATION ♦ Thauera, TNT-LINE SUPERVISOR. (references)

Etymologies containing "toluene": Oxytoluene ♦ Thiotolene, Tolane. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Toluene

Domain	Title
Books	Toluene (reference) Toluene (Environmental Health Criteria Series: No 52) (reference) Toluene, the Xylenes and Their Industrial Derivatives (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Toluene Xylenes Newsletter - Full Service (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Toluene

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Silver and gold spray paints, which contain more toluene than other spray colors, also are popular inhalants. (references)
		Riegel, A.C., and French, E.D. Acute toluene induces biphasic changes in rat spontaneous locomotor activity which are blocked by remoxipride. (references)
		A recent study indicates that toluene, a solvent found in many commonly abused inhalants including airplane glue, paint sprays, and paint and nail polish removers, activates the brain's dopamine system. (references)
Business		There is no domestic production of methanol, toluene, benzene or xylene. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Toluene

"Toluene" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Toluene" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.74%	18	82,615
Noun (proper)	5.26%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	19	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Toluene

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "toluene": butylhydroxy-toluene.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toluene

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
toluene	156
toluene diisocyanate	16
msds toluene	13
structure toluene	8
density toluene	6
boiling point toluene	5
butylated hydroxy toluene	5
diagram flow process toluene	4
acid para sulfonic toluene	3
booster octane toluene	3
acid sulfonic toluene	3
nitro toluene tri	3
properties toluene	2
pel toluene value	2
hda process toluene	2
manufacturer toluene	2
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Modern Translation: Toluene

Language		Translations for "toluene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		toluol, toluen. (various references)

Arabic		‏التوليووين سائل عديم اللون. (various references)

Bulgarian		толуол. (various references)

Chinese		�"�苯 (methylbenzene, Toluol). (various references)

Danish		toluen (toluole). (various references)

Dutch		toluol, tolueen. (various references)

Finnish		tolueenisulfamidihartsi (toluene-sulphonamide resin). (various references)

French		toluène. (various references)

German		Toluol (toluol). (various references)

Greek		τολουΰνη. (various references)

Hungarian		toluol. (various references)

Italian		toluolo (toluole), toluene. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		トリパノソーマ症 (sleeping sickness, torque, torque converter, tribune, trilemma, trill, trim, trimmer, trimming, triple, triple crown, triple jump, triple play, trivia, trivialism, trooper, truffle, trypanosoma, trypanosomiasis, Turkey, turquoise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		トルエン . (various references)

Korean		툴루�". (various references)

Pig Latin		oluenetay

Portuguese		tolueno. (various references)

Russian		толуол. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		toluen. (various references)

Spanish		tolueno. (various references)

Swedish		toluen, metylbensen. (various references)

Turkish		tolüen, yanıcı hidrokarbür. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Toluene

Derivations
	Words beginning with "toluene": toluenes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "toluene": trinitrotoluene. (additional references)
	Words containing "toluene": trinitrotoluenes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Toluene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: holburne, ltalienne, polyene, taluene, Tolaini, Tolkein, tollen, toluenes, Tolven, Tolverne, Totleben, toulene. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Toluene"

Words rhyming with "toluene" (pronounced 'Tol"u*ene'): Abietene, Acetylene, Advene, Aliene, Allylene, Alpigene, Amphigene, Amylene, Antenicene, Anthracene, Arrasene, Azobenzene, Benzene, Butylene, Cadene, Cajuputene, Cannabene, Carene, Carvene, Cedrene, Cerotene, Cetene, Chrysene, Colophene, Contravene, Conylene, Coryphene, Cottolene, Crotonylene, Cumene, Cymene, Cymogene, Decene, Durene, Fluoranthene, Fluorene, gasolene, Hellene, Homogene, indigene, kerosene, Leucoxene, Megasthene, Meiocene, Melene, Menthene, Mesitylene, methylene, Microsthene, Mimetene. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Toluene

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-o-t-u"
	-1 letter: eluent.
	-2 letters: elute, lento, leone, lunet, unlet.
	-3 letters: enol, leet, leno, lent, lone, lout, lune, lunt, lute, noel, note, teel, teen, tele, tole, tolu, tone, tule, tune, unto.
	-4 letters: eel, eon, lee, let, leu, lot, nee, net, not, nut, ole, one, out, tee, tel, ten, toe, ton, tun.
	-5 letters: el, en, et, lo, ne, no.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: eloquent, toluenes.
	+2 letters: bluestone, emolument, plenteous, volunteer.
	+3 letters: bluebonnet, bluestones, bluetongue, couplement, cuttlebone, edentulous, eloquently, emoluments, feuilleton, fluoxetine, ineloquent, nucleotide, outfeeling, outgeneral, outlearned, tongueless, tonguelike, unmolested, volunteers.
	+4 letters: bluebonnets, bluetongues, contumelies, counterplea, couplements, cuttlebones, demountable, endothelium, enucleation, equipollent, feuilletons, fluorescent, fluoxetines, intercouple, isobutylene, leukotriene, neuroleptic, nucleotides, outgenerals, outsleeping, plenteously, reinoculate, uncollected, uncompleted, unelaborate, unexploited, unloveliest, volunteered.
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