Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Oil-gas (C4H8); a gaseous hydrocarbon of the olefine series, first obtained by the distillation of oil. See
coal-gas . Also calledbutylene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Butylene; -- so called from the
four carbon atoms in the molecule.
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- noun chemistry
butylene
Etymologies
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tetra- + ethylene, because of the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
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