Category:Quartenylic

Quar"ten*yl"ic, a. Etym: [quartene + -yl + -ic.] (chem.)

Defn: pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid Series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless Liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.