xylene

See also: xylène

English

Etymology

From xyl- +‎ -ene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪliːn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪliːn

Noun

xylene (countable and uncountable, plural xylenes)

1. (chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.

   Synonym: dimethylbenzene

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 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 […]

Derived terms

• musk xylene
• xylene musk

 

Translations

di-methyl-benzene

• Bulgarian: ксилол m (ksilol)
• Catalan: xilè (ca) m, dimetilbenzè 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 (hu)
• 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 (ru) m (dimetilbenzól)
• Spanish: xileno m
• Swedish: xylen (sv), dimetylbensen (sv)