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Etymology

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hex- +‎ -yl +‎ ethylene

Noun

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hexylene (plural hexylenes)

  1. (chemistry) A colourless liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals.
  2. (chemistry) Any of several isomers of hexylene proper.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hexylene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)