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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hydrocarbon, C12H8, formed when the vapor of acenaphthene is passed over red-hot lead oxid.

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  • noun organic chemistry A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing an unsaturated five-membered ring ortho- and peri-fused to the 1- and 9- positions of naphthalene.

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