An aromatic hydrocarbon crystallizing in large colourless prisms, having the formula of two molecules of the radical benzyl. Also attributive and in other combinations, as dibenzyl-methane, dibenzyl ketone.
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1868 H. B. Jones & H. WattsFownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 574 The formation of benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, and dibenzyl.