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Webster 1913 Edition
Quartenylic
Quar′ten-yl′ic
,Adj.
[
Quartene
+ -yl
+ -ic
.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; – so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.