anthracene

anthracene

See also: anthracène

English

Anthracene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “coal”) +‎ -ene.

Noun

anthracene (countable and uncountable, plural anthracenes)

1. (organic chemistry) A tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (an acene containing three fused rings) obtained from coal tar; used in the manufacture of wood preservatives, insecticides and the dye alizarin; it is isomeric with phenanthrene.

Hypernyms

• acene

Coordinate terms

• benzene (a 1-ring acene)
• naphthalene (a 2-ring acene)

Derived terms

• circumanthracene

Translations

tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Chinese: Cantonese: 蒽 (jan1) Mandarin: 蒽 (zh) (ēn) Finnish: antraseeni French: anthracène (fr) m Hindi: अंगारेन्य (aṅgārenya) Irish: antraicéin f Italian: antracene (it) m

Japanese: アントラセン (antorasen) Korean: 안트라센 (anteurasen) Marathi: अंगारेन्य (aṅgārenya) Nepali: अंगारेन्य (ãgārenya) Persian: آنتراسن‎ (ântrâsen) Portuguese: antraceno m Russian: антраце́н (ru) m (antracén) Spanish: antraceno m

See also

• anthracene on Wikipedia.Wikipedia