† klumenen.
/ˈkluːmiːn/ Chemistry. Obsolete.
= acetylene n.
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1853 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. VIII. 150 A carbide of potassium..gives off, when immersed in water, a peculiar combustible gas, which is klumene gas.
1900 V. B. Lewes Acetylene iii. 63 Edmund Davy, in 1836, named the newly-discovered gas bicarburet of hydrogen..; whilst later the name ‘klumene’ was bestowed upon it, because it had been derived from a kalium compound—potassium carbide.
1901 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 3 Dec. 204 Olefine and Klumene Compounds.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 35/1 Acetylene, klumene or ethine, is one of the gaseous compounds of hydrogen and carbon.
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