Acetylene

Word ACETYLENE
Character 9
Hyphenation a cet y lene
Pronunciations /ə ˈsɛt əl ˌin/

Definitions and meanings of "Acetylene"

What do we mean by acetylene?

A colorless, highly flammable or explosive gas, C2H2, used for metal welding and cutting and as an illuminant. noun

A colorless gas, C2H2, which has a characteristic and very unpleasant odor, and burns with a luminous smoky flame. noun

This gas, C2H2, prepared by the action of water on calcium carbide, is now largely used as an illuminant and to increase the illuminating value of coal-gas and water-gas of poor quality. noun

A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. noun

Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne. noun

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. noun

A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis noun

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, odorless gas, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding or metallurgy.

A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.

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The word "acetylene" in example sentences

Also, much modern torch use acetylene is still made this way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cylinders contained acetylene, which is a highly energetic chemical. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The location is what we call a packaged gases or cylinder gases location that puts various types of gases, primarily acetylene, which is used for welding, but other types of gases as well into cylinders for distribution to customers. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Another use for acetylene, which is only dependent upon a suitably lowered price for carbide to become of some importance, consists in the preparation of a black pigment to replace ordinary lampblack. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

When those two substances are mixed together the hydrogen of the water leaves its original partner, oxygen, and the carbon of the calcium carbide leaves the calcium, uniting together to form that particular compound of hydrogen and carbon, or hydrocarbon, which is known as acetylene, whose formula is C_2H_2; while the residual calcium and oxygen join together to produce calcium oxide or lime, CaO. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

These are known as acetylene dichloride and tetrachloride respectively, or more systematically as dichlorethylene and tetrachlorethane. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

Fittings are now being specially made for acetylene, which is a step in the right direction, because, in addition to superior taps and joints being essential, smaller bore piping and smaller through-ways to the taps than are required for coal-gas serve for acetylene. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

The world learned one morning of a new gas called acetylene, clear, brilliant, cheap, and simply made from calcium carbide. ❋ Thomas William Lawson (1891)

The signature of a baseline molecule, called acetylene (C2H2), was seen for both types of stars, but hydrogen cyanide was seen only around stars like our sun. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(or both), above the level of the relatively safe solution, the cylinder contains a certain quantity of gaseous acetylene, which is compressed above its limit of safety. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

Thirdly, the fact that the acetylene which is to be consumed under the mantle must be most rigorously purified from phosphorus compounds has been mentioned in Chapter V. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

Conversely, a combustible gas, such as acetylene, may be safely "carburetted" by these hydrocarbons in a properly constructed apparatus set up outside the dwelling-house, as explained in ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

The sulphuretted hydrogen and phosphine which are found in acetylene as ordinarily prepared are such powerful toxic agents that they would always, in cases of "acetylene" poisoning, be largely instrumental in bringing about the effects observed. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

The flow of all gases through pipes is of course governed by the same general principles; and it is only necessary in applying these principles to a particular gas, such as acetylene, to know certain physical properties of the gas and to make due allowance for their influence. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

Such organisms would consume hydrocarbons such as acetylene near Titan's surface, so their presence might be recognizable by a dearth of acetylene and hydrogen at the surface, noted in Icarus in 2005. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus it appears that if the heat evolved during the decomposition of calcium carbide is not otherwise consumed, it is sufficient in amount to vaporise almost exactly 3 parts by weight of water for every 4 parts of carbide attacked; but if it were expended upon some substance such as acetylene, calcium carbide, or steel, which, unlike water, could not absorb an extra amount by changing its physical state (from solid to liquid, or from liquid to gas), the heat generated during the decomposition of a given weight of carbide would suffice to raise an equal weight of the particular substance under consideration to a temperature vastly exceeding 438° C. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

a richly illuminating gas, such as acetylene, on the illuminative value of a gas which has little or no inherent illuminating power, are largely vitiated by the want of any systematic method for arriving at the representative illuminative value of any illuminating gas. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

In 1918 he found the thesis of Julius Arthur Nieuwland at Maloney Hall, a chemical laboratory at The Catholic University of America, Washington DC in which Nieuwland detailed the synthesis by the combination of allowing arsenic trichloride to react with acetylene in the presence of a hydrochloric acid solution of mercuric chloride. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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