NAPHTHA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("naphtha" is a kind of...):

hydrocarbon (an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen)

dissolvent; dissolver; dissolving agent; resolvent; solvent (a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances)

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