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di⋅ene

[dahy-een, dahy-een]
–noun Chemistry.
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH2=CH−CH=CH2, that contains two double bonds.
Also called diolefin.


Origin:
1915–20; di- 1 + -ene
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