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Ethylbenzene vs Xylene - What's the difference?

ethylbenzene | xylene |

As nouns the difference between ethylbenzene and xylene

is that ethylbenzene is (organic compound) the hydrocarbon c6h5-ch2ch3 that is used in the production of styrene while xylene is xylene (di-methyl-benzene).

ethylbenzene

English

Noun

(wikipedia ethylbenzene)
  • (organic compound) The hydrocarbon C6H5-CH2CH3 that is used in the production of styrene

    • xylene

    English

    (wikipedia xylene)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 [...].