Definitions for ketenes

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ketenes ke·tene

Spelling: [kee-teen]

IPA: /ˈki tin/

Ketenes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in ketenes (eeeknst).

Definitions for ketenes

noun

1. a colorless, poisonous gas, C 2 H 2 O, irritating to the lungs, prepared from acetone or acetic acid by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of certain commercial chemicals, as acetic anhydride and aspirin.

Origin of ketenes

First recorded in 1905-10; ket- + -ene