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Noun

1. 1
   The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula HC≡CH or C₂H₂.
2. 2
   a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis wordnet

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acetylenealkyne