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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as propylene.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) Same as propylene.

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  • noun organic chemistry The official IUPAC name for the organic chemical compound propylene. An alkene which is a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C3H6.

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  • noun a flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis

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Examples

  • The "gasoline" version (Figure 1) consists of dimerising propene to high-octane isohexenes.

    Yves Chauvin - Autobiography 2006

  • Both of these mechanisms were based on smog chamber experiments involving butane and propylene or propene, if you're a nomenclature purist.

    Hot Buttered James Killus 2008

  • There is, quite often, an excess of propene, especially in oil refineries that do not have petrochemicals, as in the United States.

    Yves Chauvin - Autobiography 2006

  • So I suggested that they load one side of the chamber with a standard mix of NOx and propylene or propene, or methyl ethane, which are different words for the same stuff, and the other side with the same mix, plus some toluene.

    Archive 2007-09-01 James Killus 2007

  • So I suggested that they load one side of the chamber with a standard mix of NOx and propylene or propene, or methyl ethane, which are different words for the same stuff, and the other side with the same mix, plus some toluene.

    The Scientific Method James Killus 2007

  • In the next step this rapidly reacts either with Nu - and gives the substitution product or transfers a proton to the solvent or Nu - to give propene.

    Press Release: The 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

  • During polymerization, propene monomer units insert between hafnium and the existing polypropylene chain, Sita explains.

    Engineering News: Latest News 2010

  • The palladium catalysts outperformed the platinum ones in nitric oxide and propene conversion; however, they fell short in the processing of propane unless the temperature was above 320 ºC (600 ºF).

    Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2010

  • 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.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The rates of Hf-Zn/Zn-Al transfer are much faster than direct Hf-Al exchange, and all the chain-transfer rates are faster than the propene insertion step, Sita notes.

    Engineering News: Latest News 2010

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