naphthalene

English

Naphthalene

Etymology

From naphtha +‎ -ene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæfθəliːn/

Noun

naphthalene (usually uncountable, plural naphthalenes)

1. A white crystalline hydrocarbon manufactured from coal tar; used in mothballs.
2. (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

• anilinonaphthalene
• azonaphthalene
• azoxynaphthalene
• binaphthalene
• bromonaphthalene
• circumnaphthalene
• decahydronaphthalene
• diaminonaphthalene
• diazanaphthalene
• dinaphthalene
• lithium naphthalene
• naphthaleneacetic acid
• naphthalenediamine
• naphthalene red
• naphthalenesulfonate
• naphthalene yellow
• nitronaphthalene
• paranaphthalene
• polychlorinated naphthalene
• tetrahydronaphthalene
• triazanaphthalene

 

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