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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a series of unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons with a carbon-carbon double bond, having the general formula CnH2n.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hydrocarbon, Cn-H2n, of the ethylene or ethene series: official name.

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  • noun organic chemistry An unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbon with one or more carbon–carbon double bonds.

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  • noun any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[alk(yl) + –ene.]

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  • Alkene monooxygenase 1.14.13.69 1 Nomenclature EC number 1.14.13.69 Systematic name alkene, NADH: oxygen oxidoreductase Recommended name alkene monooxygenase Synonyms AMO alkene epoxygenase propene monooxygenase CAS registry number 63439-50-9 2 Source Organism

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  • The other project, which requires a total investment of 20.94 billion yuan, is in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province and will have an annual capacity of 10 million tons of coal, 1.8 million tons of methanol and 0.6 million tons of alkene.

    China Coal expects share trading 2008

  • The other project, requiring total investment of 20.94 billion yuan, is in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province and will have an annual capacity of 10 million tons of coal, 1.8 million tons of methanol and 0.6 million tons of alkene.

    Earnings Report, 2008

  • The mine in Heilongjiang province will produce 10 million tons of coal annually, 1.8 million tons of methanol and 600,000 tons of alkene.

    China Coal seeks $3.56 billion 2008

  • The mine in Heilongjiang province will produce 10 million tons of coal annually, 1.8 million tons of methanol and 600,000 tons of alkene.

    Shanghai offer could raise 2008

  • Chauvins 'mechanism can be viewed as a dance in which the "catalyst pair" (black hair = catalyst) and the "alkene pair" dance around and change partners with one another.

    Animation 2005

  • The other day I was looking for some new paper on McMurry and the Titanium clan... and of course everyone know that 2 ketone or aldehyde will couple to give alkene.

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  • The other day I was looking for some new paper on McMurry and the Titanium clan... and of course everyone know that 2 ketone or aldehyde will couple to give alkene.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Taitauwai 2007

  • The simplest alkene is ethylene, with two carbon atoms joined by a double bond and four hydrogen atoms.

    Hydrocarbon chemistry 2007

  • For instance, olefins, also called alkenes — hydrocarbons that are often used in reactions for drug development — have one or more double bonds between two carbon atoms, resulting in the atoms being arranged in one plane.

    Chemists make ‘impossible’ molecules that break 100-year-old bonding rule Gemma Conroy 2024

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