thiophthene

English

Alternative forms

thiophtene

Etymology

Noun

thiophthene (plural thiophthenes)

(chemistry) A double thiophene nucleus, C₆H₄S₂, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thiophthene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)