Of or relating to cinnamene or styrene; relating to chemical compounds derived from or structurally similar to cinnamon products.
From cinnamene + -yl (chemistry suffix). A technical term created to describe the chemical nature of compounds related to the original cinnamon-derived discovery.
Chemistry has a funny way of memorializing old discoveries—we call styrene 'cinnamenyl compounds' because cinnamon was how we first found this chemical, even though we now make it from petroleum.
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