Definitions for anthracene

anthracene an·thra·cene

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IPA: /ˈæn θrəˌsin/

Anthracene is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 441 anagrams from letters in anthracene (aaceehnnrt).

Definitions for anthracene

noun

  1. a colorless, crystalline powder, C 14 H 12 , obtained from coal tar and having a violet fluorescence: used chiefly as a source of anthraquinone and alizarin, and in the process of measuring radioactive materials.

Origin of anthracene

First recorded in 1860-65; anthrac- + -ene

Examples for anthracene

anthracene is one of the last products passing over in the dry distillation of coal-tar.

In addition to alizarin, other anthracene derivatives are of industrial importance.

The anthracene remaining upon the paper after pressure is weighed.

A great number of products are procured from anthracene, by far the most important of these being artificial alizarin.

It is rapidly decomposed by an excess of alcohol into picric acid and anthracene, the solution assuming a yellow tint.

The whole of the anthracene is sold for the manufacture of artificial alizarine.

anthracene Brown is largely employed in the production of compound shades.

The anthracene derivative is in this process built up synthetically.

The whole mass dissolves on heating, and the anthracene crystallizes out on cooling.

Many synthetical processes for the preparation of anthracene and its derivatives are known.

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