olefine
English
Etymology
From olefiant.
Noun
olefine (countable and uncountable, plural olefines)
- (chemistry) olefiant gas, or ethylene
- (chemistry, by extension) any of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 olefine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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