acetylene

n. [有化] 乙炔；电石气

中文词源

acetylene 乙炔

词根acet,醋酸。-yl,化学基，衍生于ethyl, 乙基。-ene,化学物后缀，炔。

acetylene (n.): gaseous hydrocarbon, 1864, from French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcelin-Pierre-Eugène Berthelot (1823-1907) from chemical ending -ene + acetyl, which was coined from acetic in 1839 by German chemist Justus von Liebig; see acetic. Liebig's coinage was in reference to a different radical; acetyl was transferred to its current sense in 1850s, but Berthelot's coinage was based on the original use of acetyl.
The name acetylene is an unfortunate one as the hydrocarbon is not directly related to the modern acetyl radical and the molecule ... contains a triple bond, not a double bond which the suffix -ene (q.v.) implies. [Flood, "Origins of Chemical Names," 1963]

1. The gang worked for up to ten hours with acetylene torches to open the vault.: 那伙匪徒为打开金库用氧乙炔炬干了长达10个小时。

3. In the darkness, the machine gun spat a vindictive white light like an acetylene torch.: 机枪在黑暗中吐出一道凶厉的白光,活象一支喷火的乙炔吹管.

4. In the high - pressure system both oxygen and acetylene are used from high - pressure cylinders.: 在高压法中,氧气和乙炔都取用于高压瓶.

5. The causes of fire and explosion at dissolving acetylene station was analyzed.: 分析了溶解乙炔站火灾、爆炸的原因.