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Definition of Diphenyl
1. n. A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
Definition of Diphenyl
1. Noun. (organic compound) An alternative name of biphenyl. ¹
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Definition of Diphenyl
1. biphenyl [n -S] - See also: biphenyl
Medical Definition of Diphenyl
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphenyl
Literary usage of Diphenyl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"Azo-bromo-diphenyl-diamine 460 ... Azo-dibromo-diphenyl-diamine — Azo-chloro-diphenyl-diamine
... 477 Phenyl-ben'zoyl 478 diphenyl-benzamide . ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1892)
"It is a clear thick liquid, has a faint smell resembling diphenyl, and boils at
244'8° (716 mm.), diphenyl under the same pressure boiling at 232'9°.2 ..."
3. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"Chromic acid oxidizes diphenyl to benzole acid, one of the two benzene nuclei
... From this and from its synthesis, the constitutional formula of diphenyl ..."
4. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"diphenyl can be prepared by heating iodobenzene with finely- divided copper at 220°.
... Another method for the preparation of the derivatives of diphenyl, ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Table I. Abundances of m/e 170, 169, 142, and 141 Relative to the Metastable Peak
m/e 118.6 (m*) in the Spectra of diphenyl Ether (2) and diphenyl Carbonate ..."
6. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"diphenyl. Aldehyde. > diphenyl appears also to be one of the constituents of
crude anthracene (p. 504), and passes over in the distillation of that ..."