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 from coal tar; used in the manufacture of dyes, pharmaceuticals and explosives; it is isomeric with anthracene.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[phen(o)– + anthr(ac)ene.]

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From phen(o)- +‎ anthr(ac)ene.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Smoking damages DNA within minutes, research shows 2011

  • 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.

    Smoking damages DNA within minutes, research shows 2011

  • The CVD process used phenanthrene gas to etch the tiny 8.8 micrometer USS Enterprise.

    One Very Small USS Enterprise Mish 2010

  • The CVD process used phenanthrene gas to etch the tiny 8.8 micrometer USS Enterprise.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Mish 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • At the same time he was able to obtain the same dimethyl phenanthrene from etiobilianic acid, a transformation product of cholic acid.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • By breaking down the oestriol molecule stage by stage Butenandt proved that both œstrogenic hormones contained a phenanthrene core.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • 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

  • Wormwood is also known as, is related to, or contains absinthe, succinic acid, Thujenol, or phenanthrene.

    Jakarta IMC Newswire 2009

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