naphtha
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In this new approach, the team produced benzenes and naphthalenes with functional groups which are attached precisely to specific positions.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
The third of the naphthalenes, endrin, is perhaps the most toxic of all the chlorinated hydrocarbons now in use.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017
As long ago as the mid-1930’s a special group of hydrocarbons, the chlorinated naphthalenes, was found to cause hepatitis, and also a rare and almost invariably fatal liver disease in persons subjected to occupational exposure.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The spray was a 25 per cent DDT concentrate suspended in a solvent containing methylated naphthalenes.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
M. Chenel has found this process the best for the analysis of the nitro- naphthalenes, and for impervious substances like collodion or gun-cotton.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
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