| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | o·le·fin |
| PRONUNCIATION: |    l -f n |
| NOUN: | Any of a class of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons such as ethylene, having the general formula CnH2n; an alkene with only one carbon-carbon double bond. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French (gaz) oléfiant, oil-forming (gas), ethylene : Latin oleum, oil; see oil + French -fiant, present participle of -fier, -fy. | | OTHER FORMS: | o le·finic —ADJECTIVE
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