xylene

ksyleeni puhekieltä Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 262:

... proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, xylene in unventilated rooms, and so on ....