Benzonitrile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The aromatic nitrile C₆H₅-CN; it is used as a solvent and has many industrial applications

Etymology

From benzo- + nitrile. Discovered and named by Hermann Fehling in 1844. This was the first compound to be named ending in "nitrile" which then became the suffix for other compounds with a similar group.

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