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<chemistry> Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.
It is used in the aniline dye industry, and constitutes the essential nucleus or radical of those dyes.
(01 Mar 1998)
toluenyl, toluic, toluic acid, toluid < Prev | Next > toluidine blue, toluidine blue O, toluol
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