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Xylene vs Mibk - What's the difference?

xylene | mibk |

As a noun xylene

is any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.

As an abbreviation MIBK is

methyl isobutyl ketone.

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 [...].

    mibk

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • methyl isobutyl ketone