Definitions for isoprenes

isoprenes i·so·prene

Spelling: [ahy-suh-preen]
IPA: /ˈaɪ səˌprin/

Isoprenes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 447 anagrams from letters in isoprenes (eeinoprss).

Definitions for isoprenes

noun

  1. a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.

Origin of isoprenes

1855-60; iso- + -pr- (-ene; see terpene

Examples for isoprenes

isoprene is a very volatile liquid, boiling at a temperature of about 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

Specimens of isoprene were made from several vegetable oils in the course of Dr. Tilden's work on those compounds.

This is the first instance on record of the spontaneous change of isoprene into India rubber.

isoprene, from which Dr. Tilden produced India rubber, is comparatively a new product, as derived from oil of turpentine.

isoprene could be obtained from turpentine, but this was too expensive and limited in supply.

We can get isoprene by the distillation of turpentine—but why not bleed a rubber tree as well as a pine tree?

The difficulty lay rather in the cost of the raw material, isoprene.

From this gas isoprene can be made and the isoprene converted into rubber by sodium, or acid or alkali or simple heating.

You will see that the isoprene consists of a chain of four carbon atoms (represented by the C's) with an extra carbon on the side.

Word Value for isoprenes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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