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A flammable colorless gaseous alkene
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ethylene
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poisonous, flammable gas, 1852, from ethyl + -ene , probably suggested by methylene .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context organic compound English) The common name for the organic chemical compound ethene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C 2 H 4 . 2 (context organic chemistry English) ...
Wikipedia
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on ethylene .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic [syn: ethene ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ethylene \Eth"yl*ene\ ([e^]th"[i^]l*[=e]n), n. [From Ethyl .] (Chem.) A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4 , forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated ...
Usage examples of ethylene.
Besides this commotion, plus being excited at seeing real live hillbilly stars such as Country Boy Eddie and his sidekick Butter Bean in person, was it any wonder that nurse Ethylene Buck was all atwitter that night?
Long cold storage followed by ethylene ripening has been shown to produce kiwifruit with less sugar, bananas with less flavor, and apples and pears with less of both.
A combination of two enzymes -- ethylene disulphonate and adenosine triphosphate, which, when injected together, improve carbohydrate metabolism in nervous tissue -- may also turn out to be effective.
It contains twelve doses of ethylene dihydride with a protein substrate.
The vapor detection device also found the presence of ethylene glycol dinitrate, a chemical marker that identified the explosive as being “Semtex,” a product of the Czech Republic.
Ethylene was featured more prominently in the older book because it had been used as an anesthetic agent a number of years ago.
The vapor detection device also found the presence of ethylene glycol dinitrate, a chemical marker that identified the explosive as being “.
All this was bad enough: but the frightening thing was that for every pint of radiator liquid lost and every pint of snow-water used to replace it, the anti-freeze became that much more diluted, and though we carried a small reserve drum of ethylene glycol its weight diminished perceptibly with every halt we made.
It was the metering of the fluid squeezed by the piston from the cylinder-pure ethylene glycol, or antifreeze-through an adjustable orifice that controlled the rate at which the aircraft was arrested.
Phenols and nitrobenzene bring to mind ether and shoe polish respectively, and ethylene glycol smells exactly like antifreeze because that's exactly what it is.
The resulting toxic soup contained the ingredients of xylene, benzyl phythlate, methanol, toluene, ethyl benzene, ethylene oxide and common formaldehyde, any of which would have caused a grave and lasting damage to the Peace River.
After girdling, the stem is sprayed or dusted with a fungicide and growth regulator, sur- rounded with one or two handfuls of unmilled sphagnum moss, and wrapped tightly with a small sheet of clear poly- ethylene film (4-6 mil).