A hydrocarbon, found in coal tar, derived from naphthalene by the addition of a short aliphatic bridge.(noun)
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Use "acenaphthene" in a sentence
"According to Gowanus Lounge the toxic chemicals Whole Foods will have to deal with include (but, hey are probably not limited to): volatile organic compounds and semi-volatile organic compounds (including napthalene and mixed xylenes), metals, benzene, acenaphthene, phenol and lead."
"Naphthalene and acenaphthene can also be usefully hydrogenated with nickel."
"Oil sands operations, however, produced the overwhelming bulk of several dangerous substances: for example, bitumen mines generated nearly all of the Canadian total of acenaphthene, one of a bevy of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons released around Fort McMurray."