I don't always have access to electricity, so I use a portable acetylene torch for welding.
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Acetylene
//əˈsɛtəlˌin//
Synonyms for "acetylene" (8 found)
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50 translations across 31 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- acetilen noun (compound with a triple bond)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ацетилен noun (compound with a triple bond)
Catalan
1 entries- acetilè noun (compound with a triple bond)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乙炔 noun (compound with a triple bond)
Czech
2 entries- acetylen noun (compound with a triple bond)
- acetylén noun (compound with a triple bond)
Dutch
1 entries- acetyleen noun (compound with a triple bond)
Esperanto
2 entries- acetileno noun (compound with a triple bond)
- etino noun (compound with a triple bond)
Finnish
3 entries- asetyleeni noun (compound with a triple bond)
- asetyleeni noun (ethyne)
- etyyni noun (ethyne)
French
1 entries- acétylène noun (compound with a triple bond)
German
2 entries- Acetylen noun (compound with a triple bond)
- Azetylen noun (compound with a triple bond)
Greek
2 entries- ακετυλένιο noun (compound with a triple bond)
- ασετυλίνη noun (compound with a triple bond)
Hungarian
1 entries- acetilén noun (compound with a triple bond)
Icelandic
3 entries- asetýlen noun (compound with a triple bond)
- kolvetnisgas noun (compound with a triple bond)
- logsuðugas noun (compound with a triple bond)
Indonesian
1 entries- asetilena noun (compound with a triple bond)
Interlingua
1 entries- acetylen noun (compound with a triple bond)
Irish
1 entries- aicéitiléin noun (compound with a triple bond)
Italian
1 entries- acetilene noun (compound with a triple bond)
Japanese
2 entries- アセチレン noun (compound with a triple bond)
- エチン noun (compound with a triple bond)
Kazakh
1 entries- ацетилен noun (compound with a triple bond)
Malay
1 entries- asetilena noun (compound with a triple bond)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- acetylen noun (compound with a triple bond)
- acetylen noun (ethyne)
- acetylenlampe noun (a lamp powered by acetylene)
- etyn noun (ethyne)
Polish
4 entries- acetylen noun (compound with a triple bond)
- acetylen noun (ethyne)
- karbidówka noun (a lamp powered by acetylene)
- lampa acetylenowa noun (a lamp powered by acetylene)
Portuguese
1 entries- acetileno noun (compound with a triple bond)
Romanian
1 entries- acetilenă noun (compound with a triple bond)
Russian
1 entries- ацетиле́н noun (compound with a triple bond)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- acetìlēn noun (compound with a triple bond)
- ацетѝле̄н noun (compound with a triple bond)
Spanish
1 entries- acetileno noun (compound with a triple bond)
Swedish
1 entries- acetylen noun (compound with a triple bond)
Tagalog
1 entries- asetileno noun (compound with a triple bond)
Turkish
2 entries- asetilen noun (ethyne)
- etin noun (ethyne)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ацетиле́н noun (compound with a triple bond)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Thankfully, electrical lighting has virtually eliminated the need for acetylene headlamps.
Source: tatoeba (11125410)
Cassini's atmospheric sensing instruments have revealed other carbon compounds, too, such as benzene and acetylene.
Source: tatoeba (11269087)
The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
Source: wiktionary
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