Assertion: acetylene | /r/HasProperty | decomposed by heat
Facets:
value: readily
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Acetylene is readily decomposed by heat, polymerizing under its influence to form an enormous number of organic of compounds; indeed the gas, which can itself be directly prepared from its constituents, carbon and hydrogen, under the influence of the electric arc, can be made the startingpoint for the construction of an enormous number of different organic compounds of a complex character.