Definitions for acetylene

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acetylene a·cet·y·lene

Spelling: [uh-set-l-een, -in]

IPA: /əˈsɛt lˌin, -ɪn/

Acetylene is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 233 anagrams from letters in acetylene (aceeelnty).

Definitions for acetylene

noun

1. a colorless gas, C 2 H 2 , having an etherlike odor, produced usually by the action of water on calcium carbide or by pyrolysis of natural gas: used especially in metal cutting and welding, as an illuminant, and in organic synthesis.

Origin of acetylene

First recorded in 1860-65; acetyl + -ene

Examples for acetylene

With a quick motion Kennedy turned off the acetylene and oxygen.

The acetylene is bought in tanks, and the air compressed by a pump.

Only two of them, methane and acetylene, will be discussed here.

Finer grades are cut into slate pencils and acetylene burners.

The acetylene formed is disengaged and enters the gasometer.

The acetylene lamps on the machines also gave good illumination.

We re-charged the acetylene lamps, for we intended to sit up late.

David saw the flash of the acetylene lamps on his bedroom blind.

Then added: "I've got an acetylene lantern; perhaps we can get a picture."

acetylene, a compound of carbon and hydrogen, is used in this way.