picoline Chem.
(ˈpɪkəlaɪn)
[mod. f. L. pix, pic-em pitch + ol-eum oil + -ine5: so in mod.F.]
A colourless liquid compound (C6H7N) obtained from bone-oil, coal-naphtha, tar, peat, etc., having an intensely powerful smell.
| 1853 Pharmac. Jrnl. XIII. 134 The sulphates of..picoline, petinine are..insoluble. 1857 Miller Elem. Chem. III. 260. 1865 Mansfield Salts 263 The double series of isomeric compounds, of which Aniline and Picoline are respectively members: both of these bodies have the composition C12H7N. |