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Rylene vs Xylene - What's the difference?

rylene | xylene |

As nouns the difference between rylene and xylene

is that rylene is (organic chemistry) any of a family of compounds related to perylene while xylene is xylene (di-methyl-benzene).

rylene

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any of a family of compounds related to perylene

    • 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 [...].