Meaning & use
Ligroin
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A volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons distilled from petroleum, used as a solvent in laboratories.
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The chemist used ligroin to extract the compound from the plant sample.
Ligroin evaporates quickly, making it useful for cleaning glassware before an experiment.
A note on using this word
Ligroin is essentially a light petroleum fraction similar to naphtha, named from a scientific term rather than any everyday word.
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petroleum etherbenzine
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