xylene

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ξύλον (ksulon, “wood”) + -ene.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzaɪliːn/

Noun

xylene (plural xylenes)

1. (chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 262:

     [...] proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, xylene in unventilated rooms, and so on [...].

Translations

di-methyl-benzene

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 二甲苯 (cmn) (èrjiǎběn)

• Esperanto: ksilolo (eo), ksileno (eo)
• Finnish: ksyleeni (fi)
• French: xylène (fr) m
• German: Xylol (de) n, Xylen (de) n, Dimethylbenzen (de) n
• Hungarian: xilol (hu)

• Irish: xiléin (ga) f
• Italian: xilene (it) m
• Japanese: キシレン (ja) (kishiren), キシロール (ja) (kishirōru)
• Portuguese: xileno (pt) m
• Russian: ксилол (ru) (ksilól) m, диметилбензол (ru) (dimetilbenzól) m
• Spanish: xileno (es) m