Meaning Of The Word Acetylene

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acetylene
Acetylene is a colourless gas which burns with a very hot bright flame. It is often used in lamps and for cutting and welding metal.

acetylene in American English
a colorless, poisonous, highly flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, HC⋮CH, produced by the reaction of water and calcium carbide: used in organic compound synthesis, for lighting, and with oxygen in welding: the simplest alkyne
noun: a colorless gas, C2H2, having an etherlike odor, produced usually by the action of water on calcium carbide or by pyrolysis of natural gas: used esp. in metal cutting and welding, as an illuminant, and in organic synthesis

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