Xylene vs Xylorcin - What's the difference?
xylene | xylorcin |
(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, dated) A derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline substance that turns red on exposure to air.
As nouns the difference between xylene and xylorcin
is that xylene is any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar while xylorcin is a derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline substance that turns red on exposure to air.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 [...].
