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Definition of Hexylene

1. n. A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C₆H₁₂, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

Definition of Hexylene

1. Noun. (chemistry) A colourless liquid hydrocarbon, C₆H₁₂, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals. ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) Any of several isomers of hexylene proper. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hexylene

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hexylene

1. A colourless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Synonym: hexene. Origin: Hex- + -yl + ethlene. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexylene

Literary usage of Hexylene

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"637 Normal hexylene, C6H12) can exist in three isomeric forms: Butyl-ethylene, ... It is converted by oxidation into butyric and acetic acids.2 An hexylene ..."

2. Wöhler's Outlines of Organic Chemistry by Friedrich Wöhler, Ira Remsen, Rudolph Fittig (1873)
"It is not known exactly, whether the hexylene, obtained in the same manner ... hexylene, C6H12. Is produced from the iodide of secondary hexyl alcohol (p. ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The hexylene thus obtained, and the hexylene obtained from the iodide (prepared ... On oxidation with chromic acid, this hexylene yields acetic acid and a ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"The ß iodide may also be prepared by digesting 0 hexylene with hydriodic acid. ... The almost invariable product of the reaction of this iodide is hexylene. ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"... was obtained mixed with hexylene, by Fremy, during the distillation of several fatty acids. ... hexylene ..."

6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1895)
"The specimen of hexylene was prepared in the laboratory of the University ... The purity of the hexylene was shown by very satisfactory combustions of the ..."

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