Cro*ton"y*lene (kr?-t?n"?-l?n), n. [Crotonic + acet-ylene.] Chem.

A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

 

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