naphthalene

English

Naphthalene

Etymology

From naphtha +‎ -ene.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnæfθəliːn/

Noun

naphthalene (usually uncountable, plural naphthalenes)

A white crystalline hydrocarbon manufactured from coal tar; used in mothballs.
(organic chemistry) An aromatic bicyclic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₈; an acene containing two fused benzene rings.

Hypernyms

(2-ring aromatic hydrocarbon):

acene

Coordinate terms

(2-ring aromatic hydrocarbon):

benzene (1-ring acene)
anthracene (3-ring acene)

Derived terms

Translations

white crystalline hydrocarbon

Bulgarian: нафталин m (naftalin)
Catalan: naftalina f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 萘 (zh) (nài)
Czech: naftalín m
Esperanto: naftalino
Finnish: naftaleeni (fi)
French: naphtalène (fr) m
German: Naphthalin (de) n
Greek: ναφθαλίνη (el) f (nafthalíni)
Hungarian: naftalin (hu)
Ido: naftalino (io)
Italian: naftalina (it) f
Japanese: ナフタレン (nafutaren)
Kazakh: нафталин (naftalin)
Portuguese: naftalina (pt) f
Russian: нафтали́н (ru) m (naftalín)
Spanish: naftalina (es)
Tagalog: naptalina

aromatic bicyclic hydrocarbon

Bulgarian: нафталин m (naftalin)
Catalan: naftalina f, naftalè m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 萘 (noi⁶)

Mandarin: 萘 (zh) (nài)
Czech: naftalen m
Greek: ναφθαλίνη (el) f (nafthalíni)
Italian: naftalene (it) m
Japanese: ナフタレン (nafutaren), ナフタリン (nafutarin)
Korean: 나프탈렌 (ko) (napeutallen)
Russian: нафтали́н (ru) m (naftalín)

Further reading

naphthalene on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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