† etherenen.
Chemistry. Obsolete.
= ethylene n.; (also) butylene (rare). Cf. etherin n.
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1842 R. Kane Elements Chem. (new ed.) xxi. 918 The name olefiant gas being very inconvenient, I shall, in speaking of its compounds, term it for the present etherene. The principal support of the theory, which considers this gas to be the radical of the ethers and of alcohol, is derived from the great simplicity of their constitution by volume, in the state of vapour, on that view.
c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 116/1 Etherene (C8H8), or the volatile gas of Faraday..[is] met with in most of the illuminating gases of commerce.
1899 W. A. Tilden Progr. Sci. Chem. v. 114 Thus upon the nucleus, C4H4, called etherene, acetic acid, C4H4+O4, was formed.
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