Relating to or containing acetylene or compounds with a triple carbon-carbon bond characteristic of acetylene.
From acetylene + -ic (adjective suffix). A standard chemistry term for describing compounds with triple bonds between carbons.
Acetylenic compounds were some of the first molecules to be systematically studied because their reactive triple bonds behave in surprising ways—they were crucial for developing the field of synthetic organic chemistry in the late 1800s.
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