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Product Categories, Description and Properties
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- Aliphatic Olefins
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Ethylene, or ethene, is a hydrocarbon which has the formula C2H4 or H2C=CH2. It is a colorless flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odour when pure. It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon-carbon double bonds). In the petrochemical industry, a primary method of ethylene production is steam cracking (SC). Other technologies employed for the production of ethylene include Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and methanol-to-olefins (MTO).
Source: Wikipedia, Ethylene
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Gas
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Kokel, Nicolas
- Last Update
- 7/16/2024 4:09 PM
- Added
- 2/15/2021 11:38 AM

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