Capnomor. World English Historical Dictionary

Capnomor. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Capnomor

Chem. [f. Gr. καπνός smoke + (?) μόρα, Doric for μοῖρα part.] A colorless transparent oil of peculiar smell, one of the constituents of smoke, obtained from wood-tar.

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1838.  T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 736. This substance [capnomore] was discovered by Reichenbach,… and was so named by him…, because it exists in the smoke of organic bodies.

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1863–79.  Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 741. Capnomor is contained, together with creosote and another oil, in the portion of wood-tar which is soluble in potash.

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