Definitions for cymene

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cymene cy·mene

Spelling: [sahy-meen]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ min/

Cymene is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in cymene (ceemny).

Definitions for cymene

noun

1. a colorless, pleasant-smelling benzene derivative, C 10 H 14 , occurring in the volatile oil of the common cumin, Cuminum cyminum, and existing in three forms, the ortho, meta, and para isomers.

Origin of cymene

1860-65; Greek kým(īnon) cumin + -ene

Examples for cymene

Besides a cymene and a toluene, which have already been shown to exist in rosin spirit, metaxylene was found to be present.

Terebenthene belongs to the benzene or aromatic series, which can be shown from its connection with cymene.

cymene is methylpropyl-benzene, and can be made from terpenes by removing two atoms of H.

By distillation with zinc chloride, cymene and other products are produced.