Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a class of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons having at least one double bond.
- noun A fiber or fabric made of this material.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.), archaic Olefiant gas, or ethylene. See
ethylene . - noun (Chem.) Any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is the type; a member of the alkene series of hydrocarbons; an alkene.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of a class of
unsaturated open-chainhydrocarbons such asethylene ; analkene with only one carbon-carbon double bond.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In a similar way, the discoveries in olefin metathesis have led to new processes that can benefit from detailed mechanistic explorations.
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Although metallacyclopentanes are not important in olefin metathesis, they have been found to be important in a variety of other olefin dimerization reactions.
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After nine very productive years at MSU where I started my work in olefin metathesis and a number of other areas of catalysis, I was offered
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Williams Cos. fourth-quarter earnings rose 1.2% as the natural-gas company benefited from higher natural-gas-liquid and olefin profits, partly offset by lower natural-gas prices.
Williams Cos. Profit Rises 1.2% Tess Stynes 2011
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He said Reliance will build a 1.5-million-ton olefin cracker at its Jamnagar facility in the western state of Gujarat.
Reliance Expects to be Debt-Free This Year Eric Yep 2011
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This is the perfect fabric for those high traffic areas and for smaller fabric areas; you can find olefin combined with other fabrics to create beauty and function.
Decorating White Spaces by Adding a Delicate Touch of Color 2009
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It's a combination of nylon, aramid and olefin fiber.
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Depending on the properties of the naphtha feedstock (as measured by the paraffin, olefin, naphthene, and aromatic content) and catalysts used, reformates can be produced with very high concentrations of toluene, benzene, xylene, and other aromatics useful in gasoline blending and petrochemical processing.
Cracking 2008
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Among the claims were that Kiss My Face's "Obsessively Organic" cleansers contained olefin sulfonate, a petrochemical, and that Avalon "Organics" contain the petrochemical Amdiopropyl Betaine.
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In April 2001, KPIC approved a $1.5 billion plan to construct "Equate II," which would produce olefin (ethylene, polyethylene, ethylene glycol).
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