acetylene
See also: acétylène
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Borrowed from French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl.
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acetylene (countable and uncountable, plural acetylenes)
- (organic chemistry, countable) Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne.
- 1951 April, “Notes and News: Improvements at Kyle of Lochalsh”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
- The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Ethyne; the simplest alkyne, a hydrocarbon of formula HC≡CH. It is a colourless, odourless, extremely flammable, explosive gas, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding and metallurgy.
- A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.
- 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 69:
- Mrs. Winnie had kindly sent her limousine car for them, and it stood throbbing in front of the hotel-entrance, its acetylenes streaming far up the street.
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- acetylenation
- acetylene black
- acetylenediol
- acetylene torch
- acetylenic
- conylene
- crotonylene
- cyanoacetylene
- diacetylene
- dicyanoacetylene
- diiodoacetylene
- diphenylacetylene
- haloacetylene
- methylacetylene
- oxyacetylene
- phenylacetylene
- polyacetylene
- terminal acetylene
- tosylacetylene
- triacetylene
- trimethylsilylacetylene
- vinylacetylene
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acetylene
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a lamp powered by acetylene
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acetylene n