cymogene

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Etymology

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Particularly: “from cymo-, meaning wave or potentially sprout, fetus? or from cryo, conf. cryogen”

Noun

cymogene (usually uncountable, plural cymogenes)

  1. (organic chemistry, petrochemistry) A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; used for producing low temperatures.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cymogene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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