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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 anunsaturated five-membered ring ortho- and peri-fused to the 1- and 9- positions ofnaphthalene .
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