Chem. [f. Gr. καπνός smoke + (?) μόρα, Doric for μοῖρα part.] A colorless transparent oil of peculiar smell, one of the constituents of smoke, obtained from wood-tar.
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 736. This substance [capnomore] was discovered by Reichenbach,… and was so named by him…, because it exists in the smoke of organic bodies.
1863–79. Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 741. Capnomor is contained, together with creosote and another oil, in the portion of wood-tar which is soluble in potash.
