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diphenylacetylene

diphenylacetylene noun: a colourless crystalline material widely used as a building block in organic chemistry and as a ligand in organometallic chemistry.

Noun

diphenylacetylene (countable and uncountable, plural diphenylacetylenes)

  1. A colourless crystalline material widely used as a building block in organic chemistry and as a ligand in organometallic chemistry.

Forms of diphenylacetylene

pluraldiphenylacetylenes

Origin of diphenylacetylene

From diphenyl + acetylene.

Questions about diphenylacetylene

What does diphenylacetylene mean?
Diphenylacetylene means a colourless crystalline material widely used as a building block in organic chemistry and as a ligand in organometallic chemistry.
What part of speech is diphenylacetylene?
Diphenylacetylene is a noun.
What is the plural of diphenylacetylene?
The plural of diphenylacetylene is diphenylacetylenes.

Words near diphenylacetylene in the dictionary

  1. diphenols
  2. diphenoxylate
  3. diphenyl
  4. diphenyl ether
  5. diphenylacetyl
  6. diphenylacetylene
  7. diphenylacetylenes
  8. diphenylacetyls
  9. diphenylalanine
  10. diphenylalkene
  11. diphenylalkenes

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