PYRENE Definition & Meaning

pyrene

[ pahy-reen, pahy-reen ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Botany.

a putamen or stone, especially when there are several in a single fruit; a nutlet.

pyrene

[ pahy-reen ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Chemistry.

a polycyclic, aromatic crystalline hydrocarbon, C 1 6 H 1 0 , consisting of four fused benzene rings, found in coal tar and believed to be carcinogenic.

pyrene

/ ˈ�貹ɪ��ː�� /

noun

a solid polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon extracted from coal tar. Formula: C 16 H 10

pyrene

/ ˈ�貹ɪ��ː�� /

noun

botany any of several small hard stones that occur in a single fruit and contain a single seed each

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of pyrene¹

1830–40; < New Latin ��̄��ŧ�Բ� < Greek ��̄��ḗn fruit stone

Origin of pyrene²

First recorded in 1880–85; pyr- + -ene

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of pyrene¹

C19: from pyro- + -ene

Origin of pyrene²

C19: from New Latin pyrena, from Greek ��ܰ�ŧ��

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Others of the crew, who had hastily donned masks to protect themselves from the choking vapour, were busily engaged in hurling pyrene into the seat of the conflagration.

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From the tar distillate, the chrysene can be fractionally precipitated, and the fluoranthene can be separated from most of the pyrene by fractional distillation in a partial vacuum.

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