Crossword-Solution: BUTYLENE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Butylene | n. | Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable. |
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| Hydrocarbon in gasoline. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BUTYLENE (5)
The chief hydrocarbons found in illuminating gas are, ethylene C_{2}H_{4} crotonylene C_{4}H_{6} propylene C_{3}H_{6} benzene C_{6}H_{6} butylene C_{4}H_{8} toluene C_{7}H_{8} amylene C_{5}H_{10} xylene C_{8}H_{10} acetylene C_{2}H_{2} methane C H_{4} allylene C_{3}H_{4} ethane C_{2}H_{6} A gas which has played a prominent part in lighting is acetylene, produced by the interaction of water and calcium carbide.
More particularly, this invention relates to a method for causing an explosion comprising the steps of dispersing a cloud of liquid fuel in the air and detonating the cloud wherein the cloud is composed of particles of 10 gelled or ungelled 1,2-butylene oxide.
The marked superiority stems from the fact that 1,2-butylene oxide is about 3 times safer than propylene oxide when long exposure to it is required and about 3.5 times safer than ethylene oxide.
Insofar as ease of detonation is concerned, 1,2-butylene oxide has about 65 the same explosive limits as propylene oxide.
According to this invention 1,2-butylene oxide may be used in either its natural 5 liquid state or gelled with a hereinafter named gelling agent.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1964).