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Definition of Butenes
1. butene [n] - See also: butene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butenes
Literary usage of Butenes
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)
"If the formation of cyclopropane from 2-butenes proceeded via radical intermediates
... to 2-butenes is in agreement with this assignment.4 CHI3 \=/ A. CHI, ..."
2. An Elementary Manual of Chemistry by William Ripley Nichols, William B. Lindsay, Frank Humphreys Storer (1894)
"... in the molecule, of the carbon atoms which are in the ethene condition; for
example, we may have the following bodies, known as butenes or butylenes, ..."
3. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"... as crotonic aldehyde because on oxidation it yields an acid known as crotonic
acid. As there are two isomeric butenes due to the position of the double ..."
4. A Text Book of Organic Chemistry by William Albert Noyes (1903)
"The presence of the double union greatly increases the number of possible isomers.
There are three butenes and five ..."
5. Proceedings of the Natural Gas Association of America by Natural Gas Association of America, Meeting (1916)
"... some non-condensible vapors coming from the condenser and from the weathering
tank which have a very high heating value, largely butenes. ..."
6. Code of Federal Regulations: Parts 170 to 199 Revised as of April 1, 2005 by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"... produced by the copolymerization of isobutylene with mixtures of n-butenes
such that the finished basic ..."
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