Oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines.
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It is also known as phenylamine or amido-benzole, or commercially as aniline oil.
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Commercial aniline oil is not, as we have seen, the purest form of rectified aniline.
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Stated in a few words, the above is the process adopted on all hands for the production of commercial aniline , or aniline oil.
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The aniline salt is dissolved in as little hot water as possible and neutralised with a small amount of aniline oil (10 lb.).
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First, light aniline oils pass over, followed by others, and finally by the heavy oils, or "aniline-tailings."
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The aniline oils of commerce are very variable in character, the principal constituents being pure aniline, para- and meta-toluidine, xylidines, and cumidines.