BENZENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benzene mean? 

• BENZENE (noun)
  The noun BENZENE has 1 sense:

1. a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds

  Familiarity information: BENZENE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENZENE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

benzene; benzine; benzol

Hypernyms ("benzene" is a kind of...):

aromatic hydrocarbon (a hydrocarbon that contains one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of organic compounds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "benzene"):

benzene formula; benzene nucleus; benzene ring; Kekule formula (a closed chain of 6 carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached)

 Context examples 

Scientists have genetically modified a common houseplant called pothos ivy or devil’s ivy that can remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.

(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An orange crystalline solid compound that is metabolized to benzene in vivo.

(Diazoaminobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)

It is insoluble in water, but soluble in ether, benzene, and certain esters.

(Paraffin, NCI Thesaurus)

In industry benzene is used as a solvent, as a chemical intermediate, and is used in the synthesis of numerous chemicals.

(Benzene, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to benzene may increase the risk of developing leukemia.

(Benzene, NCI Dictionary)

A crystalline, carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of five fused benzene rings, produced by the incomplete combustion of organic matter.

(Dibenzo[a,h]anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)

Historically, the benzene ring is denoted 'A'-ring, the pyran ring 'C' ring, and the phenyl ring 'B'-ring.

(Dietary Flavonoid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Any compound that contains the basic indole structure, an aromatic heterocyclic organic compound, consisting of a six-membered benzene ring fused to a five-membered nitrogen-containing pyrrole ring.

(Indole Compound, NCI Thesaurus)

The gamma-isomer of benzene hexachloride, a colorless to white colored, synthetic, crystalline solid with a slight musty odor that emits toxic fumes of hydrochloric acid and other chlorinated compounds when heated to decomposition.

(Lindane, NCI Thesaurus)

Expression of this allele is associated with increased risk of benzene hematotoxicity, asthma and leukemias and decreased breast cancer survival.

(NQO1*2 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)