Xylol vs. Xylene — What's the Difference?

Variant of xylene.

Xylene (from Greek ξύλον xylon, "wood"), xylol or dimethylbenzene is any one of three isomers of dimethylbenzene, or a combination thereof. With the formula (CH3)2C6H4, in each of the three compounds a benzene ring is substituted by two methyl groups.

Xylene

Any of three colorless flammable isomeric benzene derivatives, C8H10, obtained from wood and coal tar.

Same as Xylene.

A mixture of xylene isomers used as a solvent in making lacquers and rubber cement and as an aviation fuel.

A colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent

(chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.

Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.

A colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent