Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless aromatic crystalline hydrocarbon, C14H10, obtained by fractional distillation of coal-tar oils and used in dyes, drugs, and explosives.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline hydrocar- bon, , found in coal-tar, and formed when various hydrocarbons are passed through red-hot tubes. Its solutions have a slight blue fluorescence. It melts at 99° C., but sublimes at a lower temperature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon obtained fromcoal tar ; used in the manufacture ofdyes ,pharmaceuticals andexplosives ; it isisomeric withanthracene .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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To better understand the risks, Hecht's team conducted what they called a "unique" analysis, by labeling and tracking a single PAH — phenanthrene — through the bodies of 12 volunteer smokers.
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To better understand the risks, Hecht's team conducted what they called a "unique" analysis, by labeling and tracking a single PAH — phenanthrene — through the bodies of 12 volunteer smokers.
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The CVD process used phenanthrene gas to etch the tiny 8.8 micrometer USS Enterprise.
One Very Small USS Enterprise Mish 2010
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The CVD process used phenanthrene gas to etch the tiny 8.8 micrometer USS Enterprise.
Archive 2010-03-01 Mish 2010
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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.
Automatic Classification of thousands of Crystal Structures Egon Willighagen 2007
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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
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At the same time he was able to obtain the same dimethyl phenanthrene from etiobilianic acid, a transformation product of cholic acid.
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By breaking down the oestriol molecule stage by stage Butenandt proved that both œstrogenic hormones contained a phenanthrene core.
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The toxic chemicals subject to reporting requirements included anthracene, cobalt compounds, dioxin and dioxin-like compounds, formaldehyde, lead compounds, methanol, nickel compounds, phenanthrene, and vanadium.
ENS 2009
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Wormwood is also known as, is related to, or contains absinthe, succinic acid, Thujenol, or phenanthrene.
Jakarta IMC Newswire 2009
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