The word 'naphthalene' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a chemical compound that is commonly used as a preservative and moth repellent. Example: "The scientist conducted a study on the effects of naphthalene on insect behavior."
Some of the first gels tested in large trials included Ushercell, which was made up of cellulose sulfate, and PRO 2000, which contained a polymer of naphthalene sulfonate.
Injury may be accidental, as with moth ball (naphthalene) ingestion in children, or it may be the undesirable effect of a drug used therapeutically.
Similar treatment applied to naphthalene (C10H8) results in naphthylamine.
Since 1934, seedless fruits of tomato, cucumber, peppers, holly, and others also have been obtained for commercial use by administering plant growth substances, such as indoleacetic acid, indolebutyric acid, naphthalene acetic acid, and β-naphthoxyacetic acid, to ovaries in flowers (induced parthenocarpy).
In addition to benzene, other examples include toluene and naphthalene.
Naphthol, either of two colourless, crystalline organic compounds derived from naphthalene and belonging to the phenol family; each has the molecular formula C10H7OH.
Although once attributed to a virus, the disease is now known to be caused by the ingestion of feed contaminated with chlorinated naphthalene, a lubricant used to grease feed mills.
I dragged him to the elevator, his knees buckling, the snow thawing on his coat, releasing a closet-and-naphthalene smell.
Another of Dr. Hargraves' patients sprayed the basement and all the secluded areas of a roach-infested building with a twenty-five-per-cent concentration of DDT in a solvent containing methylated naphthalenes.
The third of the naphthalenes, endrin, is perhaps the most toxic of all the chlorinated hydrocarbons now in use.
As long ago as the mid-nineteen-thirties, a special group of hydrocarbons, the chlorinated naphthalenes, had been found to cause hepatitis and a rare and almost invariably fatal disease known as yellow atrophy of the liver in persons subjected to occupational exposure.
