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anthracene

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anthracene

White, glistening, crystalline, tricyclic, aromatic hydrocarbon with a faint blue fluorescence when pure. Its melting point is about 216°C/421°F and its boiling point 340°C/664°F. It occurs in the high-boiling-point fractions of coal tar, where it was discovered in 1832 by the French chemists Auguste Laurent (1808–1853) and Jean Dumas (1800–1884).



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