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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

ἄνθραξ

coal.]

(Chem.)

A solid hydrocarbon,

C6H4.C2H2.C6H4

, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.

[Written also

anthracin