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Definition of Acetylenes
1. acetylene [n] - See also: acetylene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetylenes
Literary usage of Acetylenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
"CnHm-i SERIES—"acetylenes"—UNSATURATED—ONE TRIPLE BOND The lower members have
not been identified in any petroleums, although several of the higher members ..."
2. Organic Compounds of Mercury by Frank Clifford Whitmore (1921)
"Such compounds are the halogenated ethylenes and acetylenes which have only one
remaining hydrogen. These substances react with an alkaline solution of ..."
3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"On passing a gas through the cuprous solution, a yellow or red precipitate will
be produced if acetylenes be present. If the precipitate be filtered from ..."
4. Handbook of Casinghead Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1922)
"acetylenes—The acetylene hydrocarbons when arranged in the order of their molecular
... The acetylenes are unsaturated ; in fact they are doubly unsaturated ..."
5. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"(*) acetylenes. Preparation. Acetylene is formed by the incomplete combustion of
other hydrocarbons, but is most usually prepared by the action of water ..."
6. The Medical student's manual of chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1906)
"... acetylenes. The hydrocarbons of this series may be considered as derived from
the aliphatic hydrocarbons by substitution of two (or more) phenyl groups ..."
7. Text-book of Medical Chemistry for Medical and Pharmaceutical Students and by Elias Hudson Bartley (1889)
"The higher members are unimportant ; of these butylene, C4H8, is liquid or solid
at ordinary temperatures. 529. acetylenes ..."
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