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the triple bond holding three pairs of electrons hostage in a straight, furious line
means a hydrocarbon containing at least one carbon-carbon triple bond, the simplest being acetylene (ethyne).
from From 'alk-', the stem shared by the alkane family (itself traced back to 'alcohol', via Medieval Latin from Arabic 'al-kuhl', the powdered antimony that gave us the word for distilled spirits), plus the suffix '-yne', the chemist's deliberate signal for a triple bond — paralleling '-ane' for single and '-ene' for double bonds in the systematic naming scheme formalized by 19th-century chemists.
- bond count
- two atoms share three covalent bonds
- geometry
- forces a rigid 180-degree linear shape
- acetylene
- simplest alkyne burns hot enough to weld steel
- naming
- the -yne suffix marks the triple bond
- reactivity
- electron-rich and eager to add atoms back
acetylene — hc≡ch, the simplest alkyne, used in welding torches since the 1800s
diphenylacetylene — ph-c≡c-ph, common organic chemistry example in university labs