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mesitylene

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mesity-lene
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The aromatic hydrocarbon 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene that is present in coal tar and crude oil; it has some use as a solvent

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

mesitylenes (plural)

Derived Forms

mesitylenic mesitylol

Phrases

trimesic acid trimesinic acid trimesitic acid

Questions

What does mesitylene mean?
The aromatic hydrocarbon 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene that is present in coal tar and crude oil; it has some use as a solvent

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