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Also Known As	ethyne

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methyl acetylene Agamassan substituted acetylene alkyne

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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.

Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot

French chemist

Moissan, 1906

Henri Moissan

French chemist

Julius Arthur Nieuwland

American chemist