ethylene
See also: éthylène
English
Noun
ethylene (countable and uncountable, plural ethylenes)
- (organic chemistry) 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.
- (organic chemistry) The divalent radical derived from ethane.
Derived terms
- bromotrifluoroethylene
- chloroethylene
- chlorotrifluoroethylene
- cocaethylene
- dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
- diethylene
- diphenylethylene
- ethylenediamine
- ethylene glycol
- ethyleneimine
- ethylene interpolymer
- ethylene oxide
- ethylene-vinyl acetate
- fluoroethylene
- haloethylene
- iodoethylene
- isopropylethylene
- nitroethylene
- nonethylene
- oligoethylene
- oxyethylene
- pentaethylenehexamine
- polyethylene
- polyethylene terephthalate
- tetraacetylethylenediamine
- tetrabromoethylene
- tetrafluoroethylene
- triethylene
- triphenylethylene
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