anthracene
Meaning of anthracene
noun
a colourless crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon obtained by the distillation of crude oils and used in chemical manufacture.
mid 19th century: from Greek anthrax, anthrak- ‘coal’ + -ene.
Information about anthracene
- It is a name.
- The plural form of anthracene is: anthracenes.
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Hyphenation of anthracene
an-thracene
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- anthracene is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with anthracene
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