"Olefiant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... depends on the presence therein of olefiant gas (ethylene), or, as it is sometimes termed, heavy carburetted hydrogen. This is the first of the series of hydro-carbons known as the olefines, and is composed of two atoms of carbon to every four atoms of hydrogen (C{2}H{4}). Others of the olefines are present ...
— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin |
