ethylene

ethylene

See also: éthylène

English

Etymology

From ethyl +‎ -ene.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛθəˌliːn/

Noun

ethylene (countable and uncountable, plural ethylenes)

1. (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.
2. (organic chemistry) The divalent radical derived from ethane.

Chemical Structure of Ethylene

Synonyms

• IUPAC name: ethene

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

 

Translations

compound

Catalan: etilè m Chinese: Mandarin: 乙烯 (zh) (yǐxī) Czech: etylen m Dutch: etheen (nl) Esperanto: eteno Finnish: etyleeni (fi), eteeni (fi) French: éthylène (fr) m, éthène (fr) m German: Ethen (de) n, Äthen (de) n, Ethylen (de), Äthylen (de) Hindi: दक्षुलेन्य (dakshulenya) Irish: eitéin f, eitiléin f

Italian: etilene (it) m Japanese: エチレン (echiren), エテン (eten) Norwegian: Bokmål: etylen n Nynorsk: etylen m or n Portuguese: etileno (pt) m Russian: этиле́н (ru) m (etilén) Spanish: etileno m Swedish: eten (sv); etylen (sv) (common name) Turkish: etilen (tr)

radical

French: éthylène (fr) m Italian: etilene (it) m

Japanese: エチレン基 (エチレンき, echiren-ki)