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  • noun organic chemistry The official IUPAC name for the organic chemical compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H2.

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  • noun a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis

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  • Ideally, of course, you would also know many of the answers - that the Battle of Chickamauga happened in 1863, or that acetylene is the common name of ethyne - but, for most of us, that's the hardest part.

    The Daily Princetonian, 2009-06-03 2008

  • (, no inhibition by ethyne [4]) [4] Cofactors/prosthetic groups FAD

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. acetylene

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. aliphatic compound

same context (13)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. bisulphide
  2. butadiene
  3. carcinogen
  4. disulfide
  5. ethene
  6. formaldehyde
  7. hexane
  8. myrcene
  9. naphthalene
  10. nitrobenzene
  11. phenylacetone
  12. styrene
  13. trichloroethylene

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