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Meaning of 'ethylidene' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Ethylidene
- An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.

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ethal ethane ethe ethel ethene ethenic ethenyl etheostomoid ether ethereal

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