Definitions for naphthalene

naphthalene naph·tha·lene

Spelling: [naf-thuh-leen, nap-]
IPA: /ˈnæf θəˌlin, ˈnæp-/

Naphthalene is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 361 anagrams from letters in naphthalene (aaeehhlnnpt).

Definitions for naphthalene

noun

  1. a white, crystalline, water-insoluble hydrocarbon, C 10 H 8 , usually obtained from coal tar: used in making dyes, as a moth repellant, etc.

Origin of naphthalene

First recorded in 1865-70; naphth- + -al3 + -ene

Examples for naphthalene

The story of naphthalene is summarized in the schemes on pp. 164, 165.

Owing to the structure of the naphthalene molecule there are two isomeric naphthols, whereas there is only one phenol.

It is possible to start from benzene, toluene or naphthalene.

The important constituents of this portion are carbolic acid and naphthalene.

As aniline is to benzene, so are the naphthylamines to naphthalene.

It is an amido-derivative of a sulpho-acid of beta-naphthol, so that naphthalene is the generating hydrocarbon of this substance.

He found that by acting on naphthalene—the moth-ball stuff—with chlorine he got a series of useful products called "halowaxes."

naphthalene also begins to show in quantity in the tar as soon as the yield of gas reaches 10,000 cub.

An excess of naphthalene should also be avoided, since, on account of its strong odour, soaps containing much of it are unpopular.

Other colouring-matters of the same group are in use; some of them, like “new blue,” being derivatives of naphthalene.

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