Word Meanings - ALLYLENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. CH3.C.CH

HYDROCARBON
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
GASEOUS
1. In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid. 2. Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." Sir J. Stephen.
HOMOLOGOUS
Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure. Especially: Corresponding in relative position and proportion. In similar polygons, the corresponding sides, angles, diagonals, etc., are homologous. Davies & Peck .
HYDROCARBONATE
A hydrocarbon. A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.
HYDROCARBONACEOUS
Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.
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
PROPINE
1. To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup. The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart. 2. Hence, to give in token
ULTRAGASEOUS
Having the properties exhibited by gases under very low pressures . Matter under this condition, which has been termed the fourth state of matter, is sometimes called radiant matter.