Benzidine Colors

Artificial dye-stuffs prepared from benzidine and the compounds closely related to it, as tolidine. Remarkable for their ability to unite directly with vegetable fibers without the intervention of a mordant. Benzine. Benzoline mixture of low boiling hydrocarbons, obtained by the distillation of petroleum. It consists largely of hexane, C , and heptane, C, H16. It is used as a solvent and for enriching illuminating gas. That of 62° B. is used as a substitute for oil of turpentine in cheap paint. of 70° B. for cleansing, and 74° B. for di olving india-rubber. These are now termed" naphthas."