rhigolene

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English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ῥῖγος (rhîgos, cold) + Latin oleum (oil).

Noun

rhigolene (usually uncountable, plural rhigolenes)

  1. (organic chemistry) A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gasolene and cymogene, used as a refrigerant.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 rhigolene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)