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Definition of Ketenes
1. ketene [n] - See also: ketene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ketenes
Literary usage of Ketenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on General and Industrial Organic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1921)
"ketenes These constitute a group of substances discovered by Staudinger since 1905.
Although they contain the ketonic group, CO, they differ markedly from ..."
2. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"The class of compounds known as ketenes have the general formula B2C : CO.
They not only serve to illustrate the various types of reactions characteristic ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"ketenes can be divided into two classes :—(i) Those compounds which do ...
Disubstituted ketenes such as diphenyl and dimethyl ketene belong to this class. ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"This has been shown to be true for related diene ketenes (PM Collins and H. Hart,
... Cyclization of ketenes V and VII is analogous to that reported in ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"ketenes, in chemistry, a group of organic compounds which may be considered as
... The aldo-ketenes arc colourless compounds which are not capable of ..."
6. Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical by Alexander Johnston Warden (1884)
"As already stated, Hugh of Over was Lord of ketenes about 1292-3. ... Hugh and
the descendants of Malcolm de ketenes were contemporaries, as the latter ..."