烯
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(chemistry) alkene; -ene (suffix used in chemical names)
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 火 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 烯
- Common rank
- #1,995
- Unicode
- U+70EF
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Words with 烯
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白三烯 | leukotriene (biochemistry) | |
| 丁二烯 | butadiene C4H6; biethylene | |
| 石墨烯 | graphene | |
| 乙烯基 | (chemistry) vinyl group; ethenyl group | |
| 玉米赤霉烯酮 | zearalenone | |
| 四氯乙烯 | tetrachloroethylene | |
| 异戊二烯 | isoprene | |
| 丁烯 | butene or butylene C4H8 | |
| 丙烯酸 | acrylic acid C3H4O2 | |
| 聚四氟乙烯 | polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) (often referred to by the trademark Teflon) | |
| 聚乙烯 | polythene; polyethylene | |
| 聚氯乙烯 | polyvinyl chloride (PVC) | |
| 聚苯乙烯 | polystyrene | |
| 聚丙烯 | polypropylene | |
| 丙烯酸酯 | acrylic ester | |
| 氯乙烯 | vinyl chloride (chloroethene C2H3Cl) | |
| 环戊烯 | cyclopentene C5H8 (ring of five carbon atoms) | |
| 乙烯 | ethylene | |
| 苯乙烯 | (chemistry) styrene | |
| 丙烯 | propylene C3H6 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 希 — compare how they read.