Toluol

Toluol, or TOLUENE, another name for Methyl Benzene (see AROMATIC SERIES, BENZENE), a colourless liquid with the odour of benzene, which dissolves sulphur, iodine, and many resins. It is obtained from the dry distillation of tolu or other resin, by the action of potash on benzylic alcohol, by heating toluic acid with lime, and as a coal-tar product. From it Saccharin (q.v.) may be obtained. Toluidin is a derivative of Toluol.