benzene

Etymology
A technical term in chemistry, adopted in English in 1835 as (benzene from 1872), from, which was coined in 1833 by Eilhardt Mitscherlich based on , plus the technical ending -ene (German -in) denoting hydrocarbons. The adjective is in turn from, originally a term for a balsamic resin from , from , , , from. The initial lu was probably lost because it was taken as the definite article in Romance. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  An aromatic hydrocarbon of formula C6H6 whose structure consists of a ring of alternate single and double bonds.
 * 2)  Sometimes used in place of the phenyl group.
 * 1)  Sometimes used in place of the phenyl group.
 * 1)  Sometimes used in place of the phenyl group.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَنْزِين
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: bencén, bencenu
 * Belarusian: бензо́л
 * Bulgarian: бензо́л
 * Catalan: benzè
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 苯
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: benzen
 * Danish: benzen
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბენზოლი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: धूपेन्य
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bensen, bensól
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: beinséin
 * Italian:, benzolo
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 벤젠, 벤졸
 * Latvian: benzols
 * Macedonian: бензен
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: benzen
 * Nynorsk: benzen
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бѐнзе̄н, бѐнзо̄л
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: benzén
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: benceno
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: பென்சீன்
 * Tok Pisin: bensin
 * Ukrainian: бензе́н,
 * Urdu: بنزین
 * Vietnamese: benzen
 * Yiddish: בענזין, בענזאָל