naphthalene
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1. a white crystalline strong-smelling hydrocarbon made from coal tar or petroleum and used in organic synthesis and as a fumigant in mothballs (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | hydrocarbon, |
| definition | : | an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | camphor ball, mothball, |
| definition | : | a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing (noun.artifact) |
| substance meronym | : | coal tar, |
| definition | : | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds (noun.substance) |
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