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a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis

a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis

A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.

A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.

A colorless gas, of a disagreeable odor, which burns with an intense white flame; it is prepared commercially by the action of water on calcium carbide.

A colorless, combustible gas, C2H2, with unpleasant odor.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, CH = CH. A colorless, inflammable gas of agreeable odor. Prepared for illuminating purposes, although impure, from calcium carbid and water. List of poisons and their antidotes, see in appendix, page 938. [Fr.]