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Definition of Olefins
1. olefin [n] - See also: olefin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Olefins
Literary usage of Olefins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Thus, the cis-trans ratio of ozonides produced by this mechanism should be
approximately unity from trans olefins but greater than unity from cis olefins. ..."
2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1900)
"The olefins form dibromides, from which, as also from the bromides of other
series, the original hydrocarbons may be regenerated by warming with alcohol and ..."
3. Handbook of Casinghead Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1922)
"olefins—The olefins, or hydrocarbons of the ethylene series, ... The composition
of all the olefins is expressed by the typical formula of the series Cn H2„ ..."
4. Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry by Elias Hudson Bartley (1909)
"The olefins, or C,,H2n Series.—The olefins differ from the paraffins in being
unsaturated compounds. The first member of the series, ethene or ethylene, ..."
5. Potential Impact on the U. S. Economy and Industries of the GATT Uruguay ...by Mark Estes by Mark Estes (1994)
"... and olefins: Selected US sector data, 1991-93 1 Employment and shipment data
for 1993 estimated by the staff of the US International Trade Commission. ..."
6. Chemical Reactions: Their Theory and Mechanism by Kaufman George Falk (1920)
"olefins AND THEIR REACTION PRODUCTS. IT was stated in the preceding chapters that
the reactions of organic chemistry may be treated from the same point of ..."
7. Chemical Reactions: Their Theory and Mechanism by Kaufman George Falk (1920)
"olefins AND THEIR REACTION PRODUCTS. IT was stated in the preceding chapters that
the reactions of organic chemistry may be treated from the same point of ..."
8. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1908)
"... olefins have little interest as constituents of gas. It is possible that slight
traces are present in some samples. OXIDS OF CARBON. ..."
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