Word Meanings - ETHINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acetylene.

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• ACETYLENE
  A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly