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vintaging | vintner | vintry | vinum | viny | vinyl | vinyl cyanide | vinyl ether | vinyl group | vinyl polymer | vinyl radical

vinyl

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vi=nyl

CIDE DICTIONARY

vinyln. [L. vinum wine + -yl.].
     The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vinyl, n. any plastic made by polymerizing a compound containing the vinyl group, esp. polyvinyl chloride.

Idiom
vinyl group the organic radical or group CH2CH.
Etymology
L vinum wine + -YL

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