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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A colorless crystalline compound, C12H11N, used as a stabilizer for plastics, in analysis of oxidants, and in the manufacture of dyes, explosives, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crystalline substance, (C6H5)2NH, having an agreeable odor and weakly basic properties, prepared by the dry distillation of rosaniline blue, or by heating aniline hydrochlorid and aniline together.

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  • noun chemistry an aromatic amine, (C6H5)2NH, used in the manufacture of plastics, dyes, explosives, pesticides, fungicides and pharmaceuticals

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Examples

  • Ninety-nine percent contained diphenylamine (DPA), a chemical used in plastic and rubber manufacturing, and 18 percent contained the endocrine disruptor endosulfan, which EPA moved to ban this year.

    Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Is Organic Milk A Hoax? Jennifer Grayson 2010

  • Ninety-nine percent contained diphenylamine (DPA), a chemical used in plastic and rubber manufacturing, and 18 percent contained the endocrine disruptor endosulfan, which EPA moved to ban this year.

    Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Is Organic Milk A Hoax? Jennifer Grayson 2010

  • Ninety-nine percent contained diphenylamine (DPA), a chemical used in plastic and rubber manufacturing, and 18 percent contained the endocrine disruptor endosulfan, which EPA moved to ban this year.

    Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Is Organic Milk A Hoax? Jennifer Grayson 2010

  • A drop of the diphenylamine solution is taken up by means of a clean glass rod, and the upper corners of the filter paper are touched with it, so that when the two drops run together about a quarter of the filter paper is moist.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • The filter paper used is wetted with a solution of diphenylamine [A] in sulphuric acid.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • Their reactions with diphenylamine allow a certain identification of artificial silks of this class.

    Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

  • From anisidine, phenetidine and amido-diphenylamine, still more stable diazo compounds can be obtained, but the prices of these bases are rather high, and the colours produced with them are not fast to light.

    The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

  • The solution is prepared as follows: -- Take 0.100 grm. of diphenylamine crystals, put them in a wide-necked flask with a ground stopper, add 50 c.c. of dilute sulphuric acid (10 c.c. of concentrated sulphuric acid to 40 c.c. of water), and put the flask in a water bath at between 50° and 55° C.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • A number of these condensation products are derivatives of diphenylamine or hydroxybenzyl alcohols.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • At this temperature the diphenylamine will melt, and at once dissolve in the sulphuric acid, when the flask should be taken out, well shaken, and allowed to cool.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

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