amylene

See also: amylène

English

Noun

amylene (plural amylenes)

1. (organic chemistry) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C₅H₁₀, of the ethylene series.
2. A colorless, volatile, mobile liquid consisting of a mixture of different members of the group.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “amylene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Synonyms

• pentene

Anagrams

• Maylene