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Meaning of naphthalene

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naphthalene

noun

Definitions

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

  2. An aromatic bicyclic hydrocarbon, C10H8; an acene containing two fused benzene rings.