Xylene vs Metaxylene - What's the difference?
xylene | metaxylene |
(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:
(organic chemistry) That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colourless inflammable liquid.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between xylene and metaxylene
is that xylene is xylene (di-methyl-benzene) while metaxylene is (organic chemistry) that variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other it is a colourless inflammable liquid.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 [...].
