amylene

See also: amylène

English

Etymology

From amyl +‎ -ene.

Noun

amylene (plural amylenes)

1. (obsolete, organic chemistry) pentene.
2. A colorless, volatile, mobile liquid consisting of a mixture of different isomers of this hydrocarbon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “amylene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Derived terms

• diamylene
• isoamylene
• metamylene (eicosene)
• paramylene (decene)

 

Translations

hydrocarbon

• Catalan: amilè m
• Finnish: amyleeni
• Italian: amilene m

Anagrams

• Maylene, Meanley, Yalemen