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TOLUIDINE
Definition of TOLUIDINE
noun
Any of the three isomeric aromatic amines derived from toluene; they are used in the synthesis of certain dyes
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Where it comes from
Coined in 1845 by James Sheridan Muspratt and August Wilhelm von Hofmann who discovered the compound in the same year. They appended -ine to nitrotoluide, an obsolete term for nitrotoluene, which they reduced to get toluidine. Further, from German Nitrotoluid, from Toluid, an obsolete term for toluyl radical, both proposed by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1843 after tolu (Tolu balsam), which itself is from the Colombian city of Tolú, from Spanish tolúes (“name of a pre-Columbian people of the area”). By surface analysis, toluene + -idine
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.5%
of traced words share this origin (442)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TOLUIDINE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOLUIDINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 48, 7 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TOLUIDINE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEIILNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start TOLUID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found TOLUIDINE?
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