noun
- plural of alkyne; hydrocarbons containing at least one carbon-carbon triple bond
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- Alkines are unsaturated hydrocarbons with triple bonds.
- The simplest alkine is acetylene, used in welding.
- Students learned to identify alkines in organic chemistry class.
- Alkines undergo addition reactions due to their triple bonds.
- The laboratory synthesized several alkines for research purposes.
- Alkines have the general formula CnH2n-2.