acetylene

Etymology
Borrowed from, coined by French chemist , from.

Noun

 * 1)   Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne.
 * 2)   Ethyne; the simplest alkyne, a hydrocarbon of formula HC≡CH. It is a colourless, odourless, extremely flammable, explosive gas, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding and metallurgy.
 * 3)  A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.
 * 1)  A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.

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Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian: ацетилен
 * Catalan: acetilè
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, acetylén
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, etino
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kolvetnisgas, logsuðugas, asetýlen
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: acetylen
 * Irish: aicéitiléin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: ацетилен
 * Malay: asetilena
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ацетѝле̄н
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: asetileno
 * Ukrainian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Polish:


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: acetylenlampe, karbidlampe
 * Polish: lampa acetylenowa, lampa karbidowa,