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Definition of Ethylenic
1. Adjective. (organic chemistry) Containing ethylene or an ethylene derivative ¹
2. Adjective. (organic chemistry) Pertaining to or characteristic of ethylene ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ethylenic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethylenic
Literary usage of Ethylenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lecture Notes for Chemical Students by Edward Frankland (1881)
"Molecular volume [ I 1- 1 litre of ethylenic oxide vapour weighs 22 ...
ethylenic oxide is obtained from glycol by converting the latter, ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"... ethylenic ethers, four belonging to the fatty series and two to the aromatic
series. These ethers are only hydrolysed very slowly under the action of ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1880)
"By heating glycol with ethylenic oxide,or with ethylenic bromide, ... In preparing
these bodies from glycol and ethylenic bromide, the mixture of the two ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"Moderately dilute nitric acid removes one-third of the sulphur, and converts the
ether into ethylenic ..."