benzene
ben zeen
- n a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds
- For benzene, mother of a multitude of useful organic products, he has been able to diagram the binding process.
- How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino .
- Benzene, nitrobenzene and aniline, used to produce explosives, fungicides, dyes and shoe polish, are nasty substances to have in a river.