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ACENAPH rHENE, C12H1o, a See also:

hydrocarbon isolated from the fraction of See also:coal-See also:tar boiling at 260°—270° by M. P. E. See also:Berthelot, who, in See also:conjunction with Bardy, afterwards synthesized it from a-See also:ethyl See also:naphthalene (See also:Ann. Chem. Phys., 1873, vol. See also:xxix.). It forms See also:white needles (from See also:alcohol), melts at 950 and boils at 2780. Oxidation gives naphthalic See also:acid (1.8 naphthalene dicarboxylic acid). Acenaphthalene, C12 H8, a hydrocarbon crystallizing in yellow tables and obtained by passing the vapour of acenaphthene over heated litharge. See also:Sodium See also:amalgam reduces it to acenaphthene; chromic acid oxidizes it to naphthalic acid.

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