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diene

(ˈdaɪiːn)
n
(Chemistry) chem a hydrocarbon that contains two carbon-to-carbon double bonds in its molecules
[from di-1 + -ene]
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di•o•le•fin

(daɪˈoʊ lə fɪn)

n.
an aliphatic compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH2=CH−CH=CH2, that contains two double bonds.
[1905–10]
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Dienes designs, manufactures and distributes a full range of products from knives to automatic positioning systems.
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AbstractThe aims of the present study were to evaluate oxidative status, by investigating the serum Paraoxonase/ Arylesterase (PON/ARE) activities along with conjugated dienes in patients with IBS and controls and to confirm the link between oxidative stress and IBS.
They are viewed as building blocks with the proviso that they could be synthesized from thiophenes directly and would prove suitable cyclic dienes for cycloaddition reactions that would lead to multi-functionalized arenas (Thiemann et al., 2009).
(1983, 1984), Dienes (1986, 1992a, 1992b, 1994a, 1994b, 2010), Erdesz (1983), Gantz et al.
The researchers conducted antioxidant testing by assessing the formation of conjugated dienes. The amount of conjugated dienes is directly proportional to the amount of hydroperoxides formed as the major initial product of a lipid peroxidation reaction.
Katherine Dienes (left) will leave her post at the Collegiate Church of St Mary to take up a job as head of music at Guildford Cathedral.
It is a 16-inches-by-12-inches, 235-page volume housed in an enormous Kodak box, filled with stunning photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken by Hungarian photographer Andre de Dienes. (It is so massive that Marilyn's most ardent fans will quickly discover that it is too cumbersome for bedtime reading.) Accompanying the photographs are excerpts from de Dienes's candid but gentlemanly memoir of his time spent with Marilyn, who met the photographer when was a fresh-faced aspiring model named Norma Jeane Dougherty.
Monroe, who died 40 years ago this month, is pictured when she was just 19 by photographer Andre de Dienes.
Dienes, Emilian Dudas, and Tony Gherghetta wondered what would happen if they uncurled one or more of the extra dimensions in string theory to [10.sup.-19] m, the largest size that would not already have been detected.
"There are a lot of Hercules engines in use around the world," said jack Dienes, a former Hercules president who now serves as Hercules Engine Components president.