anthracene

See also: anthracène

English

Anthracene

Etymology

Borrowed from French anthracène, coined by its co-discoverer Augustes Laurent in 1837, 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

• anthrapyrazole
• benzanthracene
• benzoanthracene
• circumanthracene
• diazaanthracene
• haloanthracene
• paranthracene
• polyanthracene

 

Related terms

• anthracite

Translations

tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

• Catalan: antracè m
• 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)
• Kazakh: антрацен (antrasen)
• Korean: 안트라센 (anteurasen)
• Marathi: अंगारेन्य (aṅgārenya)
• Nepali: अंगारेन्य (aṅgārenya)
• Persian: آنتراسن (fa) (ântrâsen)
• Polish: antracen m
• Portuguese: antraceno m
• Russian: антраце́н (ru) m (antracén)
• Spanish: antraceno m

See also

• anthracene on Wikipedia.Wikipedia