diphenylbutadiene

English

Etymology

diphenyl +‎ butadiene

Noun

diphenylbutadiene (countable and uncountable, plural diphenylbutadienes)

1. (organic chemistry) Any diphenyl derivative of butadiene, but especially trans,trans-1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene
   • 2015, Elena Solfaroli Camillocci, Fabio Bellini, Valerio Bocci, Francesco Collamati, Erika De Lucia, Riccardo Faccini, Michela Marafini, Ilaria Mattei, Silvio Morganti, Riccardo Paramatti, Vincenzo Patera, Davide Pinci, Luigi Recchia, Andrea Russomando, Alessio Sarti, Adalberto Sciubba, Martina Senzacqua, Cecilia Voena, “Polycrystalline para-terphenyl scintillator adopted in a $\beta ^{-}$ detecting probe for radio-guided surgery”, in Journal of Physics: Conference Series‎^[1], volume 620:

     A first prototype has been developed relying on the low density and high light yield of the diphenylbutadiene doped para-therphenyl organic scintillator.