Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See ethylene.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as ethylene.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry The official IUPAC name for the organic chemical compound ethylene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H4.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) Ethylene; olefiant gas.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic
Etymologies
- eth(yl) + -ene. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Peak oil signifies disaster for plastics producers — ethene, one of the raw materials used to make plastics, relies on abundant supplies of oil for production.”
“But Dutch researcher Tymen Tiemersma thinks he has a solution: a reactor that can produce ethene from natural gas.”
“Describe the procedure to synthesize the ester ethyl ethanoate (ethyl acetate), starting from ethene.? en Español”
“Gouw found that the concentrations of ethene and propene -- which both contribute to ozone formation -- dropped by 52 percent and 48 percent respectively between 2000 and 2006.”
“Tiemersma found an apparently very simple solution for one of the biggest problems in producing ethene from natural gas.”
“Each year the world produces about 130 million kilo of ethene, the most important raw material for plastics.”
“The process technologist merged the production of syngas with the production of ethene and developed a method for obtaining both substances efficiently from natural gas.”
“The production of ethene generates the heat needed for the production of syngas - which must take place at temperatures around 800 degrees Celsius - and the syngas absorbs the heat from the production of ethene, thus avoiding the need for this process to be cooled down.”
“Yet natural gas is not only used for the production of ethene.”
“If you want to produce plastics from natural gas then you first of all need to convert the natural gas into ethene.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ethene’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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