Crossword-Solution: FLUORENE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Fluorene n. A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a
beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher
boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

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white insoluble crystalline solid 1 answer
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The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
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Other hydrocarbon nuclei generally classed as aromatic in character result from the union of two or more benzene nuclei joined by one or two valencies with polymethylene or oxidized polymethylene rings; instances of such nuclei are indene, hydrindene, fluorene, and fluor-anthene.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 Various 2010
The fluorene is separated from this by placing it in a freezing mixture, and is then redistilled or crystallized from glacial acetic acid, or purified by means of its picrate.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 Various 2011
Oxidizing agents, such as arsenic acid, convert it into _ellagic acid_, C14H8O9 + H2O, probably a fluorene derivative, a substance which occurs in gall-nuts, in the external membrane of the episperm of the walnut, and probably in many plants, and composes the "bezoar stones" found in the intestines of Persian wild goats.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 Various 2011