ethyne

See also: éthyne

English

Noun

ethyne (plural ethynes)

1. (organic chemistry, official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula HC≡CH or C₂H₂.

Synonyms

• acetylene

Derived terms

• dipropylethyne
• ethynium

Chemical structure of ethyne

Translations

the compound C₂H₂

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乙炔 (zh) (yǐquē)

• Dutch: ethyn
• French: éthyne (fr) m
• German: Ethin (de) n, Äthin (de)
• Greek: αιθίνιο (el) n (aithínio)
• Irish: eitín m
• Italian: etino m
• Kazakh: этин (étin)
• Latvian: etīns m or f
• Portuguese: etino m
• Russian: эти́н (ru) m (etín)
• Spanish: etino m
• Ukrainian: ети́н m (etýn)