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aryne

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
aryne
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne

Etymology

Etymology tree Late Latin arōmaticusder. Old French aromatique Middle Frenchbor. Middle English English ar(omatic) English -yne English aryne From ar(omatic) + -yne.

Inflected Forms

arynes (plural)

Phrases

meta-aryne ortho-aryne para-aryne

Frequently Paired Words

heteroaryne hetaryne meta-aryne ortho-aryne para-aryne dehydroarene

Questions

What does aryne mean?
Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne
Where does aryne come from?
Etymology tree Late Latin arōmaticusder. Old French aromatique Middle Frenchbor. Middle English English ar(omatic) English -yne English aryne From ar(omatic) + -yne.

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