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acetylene


is a highly flammable hydrocarbon gas (C2H2), used in welding and cutting, and in plastics manufacture. Also a term for a series of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons, each containing at least one triple carbon bond, the simplest member of the series being acetylene. The triple carbon bond makes acetylenes highly reactive.

Also see unsaturated hydrocarbon.

 

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