gaseous hydrocarbon, 1864, from French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcelin-Pierre-Eugène Berthelot (1823-1907) from chemical ending -ene + acetyl, which was coined from acetic in 1839 by German chemist Justus von Liebig; see acetic. Liebig's coinage was in reference to a different radical; acetyl was transferred to its current sense in 1850s, but Berthelot's coinage was based on the original use of acetyl.
The name acetylene is an unfortunate one as the hydrocarbon is not directly related to the modern acetyl radical and the molecule ... contains a triple bond, not a double bond which the suffix -ene (q.v.) implies. [Flood, "Origins of Chemical Names," 1963]
实用例句
1. The gang worked for up to ten hours with acetylene torches to open the vault.
那伙匪徒为打开金库用氧乙炔炬干了长达10个小时。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Allene is an isomer of methyl acetylene.
丙二烯是甲基乙炔的一种异构体.
来自辞典例句
3. In the darkness, the machine gun spat a vindictive white light like an acetylene torch.
机枪在黑暗中吐出一道凶厉的白光,活象一支喷火的乙炔吹管.
来自辞典例句
4. In the high - pressure system both oxygen and acetylene are used from high - pressure cylinders.
在高压法中,氧气和乙炔都取用于高压瓶.
来自辞典例句
5. The causes of fire and explosion at dissolving acetylene station was analyzed.
