acetylene

See also: acétylène

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl +‎ -ene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛtəlˌin/

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Noun

acetylene (countable and uncountable, plural acetylenes)

2. (organic chemistry, countable) Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne.
   • 1951 April, “Notes and News: Improvements at Kyle of Lochalsh”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:

     The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.

4. (organic chemistry, uncountable) Ethyne; the simplest alkyne, a hydrocarbon of formula HC≡CH. It is a colourless, odourless, extremely flammable, explosive gas, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding and metallurgy.
6. A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.
   • 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 69:

     Mrs. Winnie had kindly sent her limousine car for them, and it stood throbbing in front of the hotel-entrance, its acetylenes streaming far up the street.

Synonyms

• (IUPAC name): ethyne

Chemical Structure of acetylene

Derived terms

• acetylenation
• acetylene black
• acetylenediol
• acetylene torch
• acetylenic
• conylene
• crotonylene
• cyanoacetylene
• diacetylene
• dicyanoacetylene
• diiodoacetylene
• diphenylacetylene
• haloacetylene
• methylacetylene
• oxyacetylene
• phenylacetylene
• polyacetylene
• terminal acetylene
• tosylacetylene
• triacetylene
• trimethylsilylacetylene
• vinylacetylene

 

Related terms

• acetylide

Translations

acetylene

• Albanian: acetilen (sq)
• Bulgarian: ацетилен (acetilen)
• Catalan: acetilè m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乙炔 (zh) (yǐquē)

• Czech: acetylen (cs) m, acetylén m
• Dutch: acetyleen (nl) n
• Esperanto: acetileno (eo), etino
• Finnish: asetyleeni (fi)
• French: acétylène (fr)
• German: Acetylen (de) n, Azetylen (de) n
• Greek: ασετυλίνη (el) f (asetylíni), ακετυλένιο (el) n (aketylénio)
• Hungarian: acetilén (hu)
• Icelandic: kolvetnisgas n, logsuðugas n, asetýlen n
• Indonesian: asetilena (id)
• Interlingua: acetylen
• Irish: aicéitiléin f
• Italian: acetilene (it)
• Japanese: アセチレン (ja) (asechiren), エチン (ja) (echin)
• Kazakh: ацетилен (asetilen)
• Malay: asetilena
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: acetylen (no) n

• Polish: acetylen (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: acetileno (pt)
• Romanian: acetilenă (ro) f
• Russian: ацетиле́н (ru) m (acetilén)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ацетѝле̄н m

  Roman: acetìlēn (sh) m

• Spanish: acetileno (es) m
• Swedish: acetylen (sv) n
• Tagalog: asetileno
• Ukrainian: ацетиле́н (uk) m (acetylén)

ethyne

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etyn (no) n, acetylen (no) n

• Polish: acetylen (pl) m

a lamp powered by acetylene

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: acetylenlampe m or f, karbidlampe m or f

• Polish: lampa acetylenowa f, lampa karbidowa f, karbidówka (pl) f

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• acetyla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asɛˈtyːlənə/

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• Rhymes: -ənə
• Hyphenation: a‧ce‧ty‧le‧ne

Noun

acetylene n

1. definite plural of acetyl