Xylene vs Btex - What's the difference?
xylene | btex | initialism |
(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:
benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and ortho-, meta-, and para- xylenes: toxic VOCs commonly found together, used in the chemical analysis of air and water to determine their quality and purity.
Xylene is a initialism of btex.
As a noun xylene
is xylene (di-methyl-benzene).As an initialism btex is
benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and ortho-, meta-, and para- xylenes: toxic vocs commonly found together, used in the chemical analysis of air and water to determine their quality and purity.xylene
English
(wikipedia xylene)Noun
(en noun)- [...] 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 [...].
