olefine

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See also: oléfine and Olefine

English

Etymology

From olefiant.

Noun

olefine (countable and uncountable, plural olefines)

  1. (chemistry) olefiant gas, or ethylene
  2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Noun

olefine f

  1. plural of olefina

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