ALKENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alkene mean? 

• ALKENE (noun)
  The noun ALKENE has 1 sense:

1. any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon

  Familiarity information: ALKENE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALKENE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

alkene; olefin; olefine

Hypernyms ("alkene" is a kind of...):

aliphatic compound (organic compound that is an alkane or alkene or alkyne or their derivative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alkene"):

ethene; ethylene (a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic)

 Context examples 

A complex mixture of combustion products of diesel fuel including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, volatile hydrocarbons, aldehydes, alkenes, alkanes and nitroarenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other derivates.

(Diesel Exhaust Particulate, NCI Thesaurus)