Definitions for ketene

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ketene ke·tene

Spelling: [kee-teen]

IPA: /ˈki tin/

Ketene is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in ketene (eeeknt).

Definitions for ketene

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 ketene

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