ethyne
9.6
A colorless, highly flammable gas used for welding and making chemicals
- noun
- /ˈɛθɪn/
- Specialized
:
etino
- Furthermore, the composition of Titan's atmosphere is complex: it is made up primarily of nitrogen, but a variety of hydrocarbons, such as methane, ethane, ethyne, and propane, are also present.
Examples
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It's a linear molecule, and this, according to the nomenclature, should be ethyne because it's one of the alkynes.
Synonyms
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7.5
A colorless flammable gas used mainly for welding and for making other chemicals
is the same gas but is the alternative systematic name
Surface Forms
Morphology
ethyne = acetylene (opaque) = eth + yne
Ethyne is a systematic chemical name equivalent to 'acetylene', but its component combining forms ('eth-' and '-yne') are technical and not transparent to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Ethyne breaks into eth- and -yne; the eth- part is the same as in ethanol and means 'two-carbon', and the -yne ending is what chemists use for a 'triple bond', so ethyne is the two‑carbon gas with a triple bond, the substance more commonly called acetylene.