What's the difference between thallene and thalline?
Thallene
Definition:
(n.) A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.
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Thalline
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of a thallus.
(n.) An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.