Xylene vs Xylic - What's the difference?
xylene | xylic |
(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:
(chemistry) Pertaining to xylene.
As a noun xylene
is xylene (di-methyl-benzene).As an adjective xylic is
(chemistry) pertaining to xylene.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 [...].
xylic
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Adjective
(-)- Xylic material and organic sediment were deposited in the supratidal marshes.