ethylene
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 C2H4.
Other meanings
The divalent radical derived from ethane.
A kind of
- gas
Related words
- ethylenediaminetetraacetate
- ethylenediaminetetraacetic
- ethylenic
- etorphine
- hexylene
- melene
- methene
- monoethylene
- monoethylene glycol
- nonylene
- perchloroethylene
- polyoxyethylene
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