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arylene

arylene noun: any bivalent radical produced by removal of two hydrogen atoms from the benzene ring of an aromatic compound.

Noun

arylene (plural arylenes)

  1. Any bivalent radical produced by removal of two hydrogen atoms from the benzene ring of an aromatic compound

Forms of arylene

pluralarylenes

Words formed from arylene

Questions about arylene

What does arylene mean?
Arylene means any bivalent radical produced by removal of two hydrogen atoms from the benzene ring of an aromatic compound.
What part of speech is arylene?
Arylene is a noun.
What is the plural of arylene?
The plural of arylene is arylenes.

Words near arylene in the dictionary

  1. aryldiacetylenes
  2. aryldialkylphosphatase
  3. aryldialkylphosphatases
  4. aryldiazonium
  5. aryldiazoniums
  6. arylene
  7. arylenes
  8. arylesterase
  9. arylesterases
  10. arylformamidase
  11. arylformamidases

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