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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

propylène

(Chem.)

A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (

C3H6

) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also

propene

See also: propylène

propylene ‎(countable and uncountable, plural propylenes)

(organic chemistry) The common name for the organic chemical compound propene. An alkene which is a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C₃H₆.

organic compound of the formula C₃H₆