ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Alkylene

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Alkylene is a noun meaning (obsolete, organic chemistry) An alkene.

Meaning

(obsolete, organic chemistry) An alkene.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete, organic chemistry) An alkanediyl functional group, especially one having the free valencies of adjacent carbon atoms.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alkene, chloroalkene, cycloalkene, ethylene, monoalkene, alkenyl.

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