- a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
- Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is the chemical compound with the formula C2H2. It is a hydrocarbon and the simplest alkyne. This colorless gas is widely used as a fuel and a chemical building block. It is unstable in pure form and thus is usually handled as a solution.
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- (Acetylenes) Alkynes are hydrocarbons that have a triple bond between two carbon atoms, with the formula CnH2n-2. Alkynes are traditionally known as acetylenes, although the name acetylene also refers specifically to C2H2, known formally as ethyne using IUPAC nomenclature. ...
- Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne; Ethyne; the simplest alkyne, a hydrocarbon of formula HC≡CH. It is a colourless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odour, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding or metallurgy
- A highly combustible gas composed of carbon and hydrogen. Used as a fuel gas in the oxyacetylene welding process.
- is prepared industrially by cracking and dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons as described for ethylene (see above Alkanes: Chemical reactions). Temperatures of about 800 °C (1,500 °F) produce ethylene; temperatures of roughly 1,150 °C (2,100 °F) yield acetylene. ...
- A gas produced by the action of water upon calcium chloride. This gas combined with oxygen burns with a very hot flame.
- a hydrocarbon gas (C2H2) used as a fuel
- A pure gas compound (HC2H) mostly made by man and supplied in tanks for use as fuel for a very high temperature (4000F) flame for welding and metal cutting. Dangerous in that it is explosive over a wide range of air/gas mixtures. 2009-07-26
- Highly flammable, gaseous, hydrocarbon used in combination with oxygen as the fuel source in Oxy-Acetylene gas torch welding.