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What is a xylene?

What is a xylene? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.
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Its surface had become heavily crazed, making it impossible to examine the specimen, so the balsam was removed with xylene.
If you do insist on using solvents, avoid low-flash point solvents like gasoline, xylene, lacquer thinner, etc. which are dangerously flammable.
Tissue sections were cut at 5 m, dewaxed, and hydrated in xylene and ethanol before antigen retrieval.
This finding suggests that these functional domains may be particularly sensitive to exposure to solvents such as toluene, xylene, and benzine.
Two sections of each specimen were dewaxed in xylene for 10 minutes and rinsed thoroughly in absolute ethanol twice.
There was also lindane, and three times the average level of xylene, a car exhaust emission.

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