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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne

Etymology

From ar(omatic) + -yne.

Related phrases

triple bond

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