tolane

English

Etymology

From toluene.

Noun

tolane (countable and uncountable, plural tolanes)

1. (organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon, C₁₄H₁₀, related to the acetylene and the aromatic series.

Synonyms

• diphenyl acetylene

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tolane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• late on, lean-to, etalon, leanto