alkene

See also: Alkene

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælˈkʰin/
• Rhymes: -in

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Noun

alkene (plural alkenes)

1. (organic chemistry) An unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbon with one or more carbon–carbon double bonds.

Synonyms

• (with only one carbon-carbon double bond): olefin

Derived terms

• alkenyl
• bisalkene
• bromoalkene
• chloroalkene
• cycloalkene
• dialkene
• fluoroalkene
• haloalkene
• heteroalkene
• ketoalkene
• monoalkene
• nitroalkene
• phosphaalkene
• polyalkene

Related terms

• alkenic

Translations

unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with one or more carbon–carbon double bonds

• Catalan: alquè m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 烯 (hei¹), 烯烴 / 烯烃 (hei¹ ting¹)

  Mandarin: 烯 (zh) (xī), 烯烴 / 烯烃 (zh) (xītīng)

• Danish: alken c
• Esperanto: alkeno
• Estonian: alkeen
• Finnish: alkeeni (fi)
• French: alcène (fr) m
• German: Alken (de) n
• Hungarian: alkén (hu)
• Ido: alkeno (io)
• Indonesian: alkena (id)
• Italian: alchene (it) m
• Japanese: アルケン (ja) (aruken), オレフィン (orefin), オレフィン系炭化水素 (オレフィンけいたんかすいそ, orefin-kei tanka suiso), エチレン系炭化水素 (エチレンけいたんかすいそ, echiren-kei tanka suiso)
• Khmer: អាល់សែន (ʼalsaen)
• Korean: 알켄 (alken)
• Latvian: alkēns (lv) m
• Maori: waiwaro-rua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alken (no) n

  Nynorsk: alken n

• Persian: آلکن (âlken)
• Polish: alken (pl) m
• Portuguese: alceno (pt) m
• Romanian: alchenă (ro) f
• Russian: алке́н (ru) m (alkén)
• Spanish: alqueno m
• Swedish: alken (sv) c
• Turkish: alken (tr)
• Ukrainian: алке́н m (alkén)
• Vietnamese: anken
• Welsh: alcen m

See also

• alkyne
• ethylene

Anagrams

• Keelan

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

alkene m or f

1. definite plural of alke

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

alkene f

1. definite plural of alke