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XYLOIDIN

\zˈa͡ɪlɔ͡ɪdˌɪn], \zˈa‍ɪlɔ‍ɪdˌɪn], \z_ˈaɪ_l_ɔɪ_d_ˌɪ_n]\

Definitions of XYLOIDIN

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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A substance resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch; - called also nitramidin.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A substance resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch; - called also nitramidin.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

An explosive prepared from starch by action of nitric acid.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A substance (C6H9 (N02)O5, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch. An explosive. [Gr., xyIon, wood, + eidos, resemblance.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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