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triethylene

triethylene noun: three ethylene groups in a molecule.

Noun

triethylene (uncountable)

  1. (in-compounds) Three ethylene groups in a molecule
    • Choline chloride (C 5 H 14 ClNO) and N,N-diethylenethanol ammonium chloride (C 6 H 16 ClNO) as quaternary ammonium salts as well as triethylene glycol (C 6 H 14 O 4 ), glycerol (C 3 H 8 O 3 ) and ethylene glycol (C 2 H 6 O 2 ) as hydrogen bond donors were obtained from Merck Chemicals (Germany)...2015 December 8, “The Effect of Temperature on Kinetics and Diffusion Coefficients of Metallocene Derivatives in Polyol-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of triethylene

From tri- + ethylene.

Words formed from triethylene

Questions about triethylene

What does triethylene mean?
Triethylene means three ethylene groups in a molecule.
What part of speech is triethylene?
Triethylene is a noun.

Words near triethylene in the dictionary

  1. triethylamine
  2. triethylamines
  3. triethylammonium
  4. triethylborane
  5. triethylboron
  6. triethylene
  7. triethylenediamine
  8. triethylenediamines
  9. triethylenemelamine
  10. triethylenetetramine
  11. triethylgallium

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