Acenaphthylene

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What Wikipedia says

Acenaphthylene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon is an ortho- and peri-fused tricyclic hydrocarbon. The molecule resembles naphthalene with positions 1 and 8 connected by a −CH=CH− unit. It is a yellow solid. Unlike many polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, it has no fluorescence.

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