Radial: A word with diverse meanings in medicine and the biomedical sciences: 1  Pertaining to the radius, the smaller bone in the forearm. 2  The radial artery is so named because of its proximity to the radius. 3  Pertaining to the radius of a circle.
A 3D model of ethyne (acetylene), the simplest alkyne. In organic chemistry, an alkyne is an unsaturated hydrocarbon containing at least one carbonâcarbon triple bond. The simplest acyclic alkynes with only one triple bond and no other functional groups form a homologous series with the general chemical formula CnH2nâ2.
There are three types of unsaturated hydrocarbons: alkenes, alkynes and aromatic hydrocarbons. Alkenes have one or more carbon-carbon double bond. Alkynes have one or more carbon-carbon triple bond, and aromatic hydrocarbons have a benzene or aromatic ring in their structure.ydrocarbons are compounds that only consist of the elements hydrogen and carbon. In this lesson, we will focus on one type of hydrocarbon: unsaturated hydrocarbons, and its three types-alkenes, alkynes and aromatic hydrocarbons.