xylene

xylene

See also: xylène

English

Etymology

xyl- +‎ -ene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪliːn/

Noun

xylene (plural xylenes)

1. (chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 262:

     [...] proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, xylene in unventilated rooms, and so on [...].

Translations

di-methyl-benzene

Catalan: xilè (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 二甲苯 (zh) (èrjiǎběn) Czech: xylen m Esperanto: ksilolo, ksileno Finnish: ksyleeni (fi) French: xylène (fr) m German: Xylol (de) n, Xylen n, Dimethylbenzen n Hungarian: xilol

Irish: xiléin f Italian: xilene (it) m Japanese: キシレン (kishiren), キシロール (kishirōru) Persian: زایلن‎ (zâylen) Portuguese: xileno m Russian: ксило́л (ru) m (ksilól), диметилбензо́л m (dimetilbenzól) Spanish: xileno m Swedish: xylen (sv), dimetylbensen (sv)