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ACENAPH  rHENE, C12H1o, a

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hydrocarbon isolated from the fraction of
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coal-
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tar boiling at 260°—270° by M . P . E .
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Berthelot, who, in
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conjunction with Bardy, afterwards synthesized it from a-
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ethyl
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naphthalene (
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Ann . Chem . Phys., 1873, vol.
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xxix.) . It forms
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white needles (from
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alcohol), melts at 950 and boils at 2780 . Oxidation gives naphthalic
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acid (1.8 naphthalene dicarboxylic acid) . Acenaphthalene, C12 H8, a hydrocarbon crystallizing in yellow tables and obtained by passing the vapour of acenaphthene over heated litharge .
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Sodium
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amalgam reduces it to acenaphthene; chromic acid oxidizes it to naphthalic acid .

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