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  • noun organic chemistry A flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, isolated from coal tar, consisting of four fused benzene rings.

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tri- +‎ phenylene

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  • The propose the work as proof-of-concept, but use a very artificial data set of only 12 crystal structures benzene and eleven polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, like naphtalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, triphenylene, pyrene, perylene, and coronene.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Egon Willighagen 2007

  • The propose the work as proof-of-concept, but use a very artificial data set of only 12 crystal structures benzene and eleven polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, like naphtalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, triphenylene, pyrene, perylene, and coronene.

    Automatic Classification of thousands of Crystal Structures Egon Willighagen 2007

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