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Xylene vs Xylol - What's the difference?

xylene | xylol |

As nouns the difference between xylene and xylol

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

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 [...].

    xylol

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • xylene
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