fluoranthene

Fluoranthene

Flu`or*an"thene\, n. [Fluorene + anthra?ene.] (Chem.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon C?H?, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar.
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