Ethylene

Definition: Ethylene

Ethylene

Noun

1. A flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic.

Date "ethylene" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Ethylene

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Odourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4. Source: European Union. (references)
Energy	A colorless gas that burns and is an oil refinery product. (references)
Shipping	A gas produced by many fruits and vegetables that accelerates the ripening and aging processes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ethylene

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ETHO	English	Ethylene Oxide	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Ethylene

Synonym: ethene (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ethylene

English words defined with "ethylene": Amylene ♦ Cetene, Chloric ether, Citraconic acid, Crotonic acid ♦ Decene, Diamylene, Dutch liquid ♦ Elayl, Ethene, Ethenic, Ethenyl, Etherin, Etherol, ethylene glycol, ethylene tetrachloride, Ethylidene ♦ Heptylene, Hexylene, Hydramine ♦ Isologous ♦ lactic acid ♦ Maleic, Melene ♦ Nonylene ♦ Octylene, Olefiant ♦ Stilbene, Styrolene ♦ Tridecatylene ♦ Valylene, vinyl, vinyl group, vinyl radical. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ethylene": Antifreeze Solution ♦ COLORER, CITRUS FRUIT, cryoprotectant ♦ DDE ♦ egg oil, egg packer's oil, Ethylene Chlorohydrin, Ethylene Dibromide, Ethylene Dichlorides, Ethylene Glycols, ethylene hydrocarbon, ethylene-propylene rubber, Ethylenes ♦ LIQUEFIED GASES, low-freezing dynamites ♦ NOODLE-CATALYST MAKER ♦ parting liquid, polyethylene fibre, Polyethylene Terephthalates, polythene fibre ♦ scrubbed CA, scrubbed controlled atmosphere, sour gas, Still gas ♦ TRACE GAS. (references)

Etymologies containing "ethylene": Melene ♦ Nonylene ♦ Octylene ♦ Quartene ♦ Tetrylene. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ethylene

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Liquefied Ethylene, Propylene, Butylene, and Butadiene: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Ethylene [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Ethylene and its industrial derivatives (reference) Ethylene Derivatives [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Ethylene in Plant Biology (reference) Ethylene, Keystone to the Petrochemical Industry, (Chemical Industries, 2) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	European Ethylene Cracker Report (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Ethylene

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Food technologist Alley Watada (left) and horticulturist Ling Qi, who is visiting from China, prepare shredded carrots and other fresh-cut produce for automated measurement of respiration rate and ethylene production. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
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Non-Fiction Usage: Ethylene

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Other technologies used to sterilize fruits, spices and medical devices use toxic chemicals, such as ethylene oxide. (references)
Business		New investment in Mai Liao was meant to allow the Taiwan market to increase ethylene self sufficiency and to better compete internationally. (references)
		This analysis examines the Taiwan market for petrochemical production machinery and includes data on equipment used to produce monomers, ethylene, styrene and propylene. (references)
		The three Naphtha crackers have a volume of 1,015,000 metric tons of annual ethylene capacity and the middle stream firms in the area produce a wide range of petrochemical products. (references)
Economic History	Uae	Borouge began construction in 2000 for a 600,000 TPY ethylene plant to be co-located with the polyethylene facility. (references)
	Qatar	Objectives: To produce ethylene di-chloride (EDC) 175,000 mtpa, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) 230,000 mtpa and caustic soda 290,000 mtpa. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ethylene

"Ethylene" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.47% of the time. "Ethylene" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.47%	82	36,594
Noun (proper)	3.53%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	85	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Ethylene

Expressions using "ethylene": diphenyl ethylene ♦ ethylene chloride ♦ Ethylene Chlorohydrin ♦ Ethylene Dibromide ♦ Ethylene Dichlorides ♦ ethylene dochloride ♦ Ethylene Glycol ♦ Ethylene Glycols ♦ ethylene hydrocarbon ♦ Ethylene Oxide ♦ Ethylene series ♦ ethylene tetrachloride ♦ phenyl ethylene. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "ethylene": ethylene-propylene.
	Ending with "ethylene": poly-ethylene.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ethylene

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ethylene glycol	104	distillation ethylene glycol	4
ethylene oxide	65	alcohol ethylene vinyl	4
ethylene	60	density ethylene glycol	4
ethylene vinyl acetate	24	acetic acid diamine ethylene tetra	4
ethylene oxide sterilization	14	ethylene production	4
ethylene glycol msds	12	compressor ethylene	3
ethylene gas	10	diagram ethylene glycol phase poly	3
acid acrylic ethylene	6	ethylene diamine	3
ethylene dichloride	6	compound ethylene	3
ethylene glycol poly	6	ethylene glycol mono	3
ethylene glycol poisoning	5	chloride ethylene	3
antifreeze ethylene glycol	5	ethylene glycol tri	3
ethylene olefins	5	ethylene poly	3
carbonate ethylene solubility	5	ethylene high polymerization pressure under	3
ethylene dibromide	4	ethylene new plant price purchase	3
ethylene propylene	4	ethylene gly glycol propylene	3
ethylene glycol properties	4	ethylene glycol university washington	2
ethylene price	4	ethylene msds oxide	2
acetate copolymer ethylene vinyl	4	ethylene exothermic glycol water	2
di ethylene glycol	4	acetaldehyde balance ethylene from	2
		brassylate ethylene	2
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Modern Translations: Ethylene

Language		Translations for "ethylene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		乙烯. (various references)

Danish		Ethylen, Ethen, olefin (ethylene hydrocarbon, olefin), alken (ethylene hydrocarbon). (various references)

Dutch		ethyleenkoolwaterstof (ethylene hydrocarbon), Ethyleen, Etheen. (various references)

Finnish		eteeni (ethylene hydrocarbon). (various references)

French		Ethylène, carbure éthylénique (ethylene hydrocarbon). (various references)

German		Kohlenwasserstoffgas (carburet hydrogen). (various references)

Greek		αιθυλένιο, αλκένιο (ethylene hydrocarbon). (various references)

Hungarian		etilén, etén. (various references)

Italian		Etilene. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		エタクリン酸 (ethacrynic acid, ethanol, Ethiopia, ethyl alcohol, etiquette, etude). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		エチレン . (various references)

Korean		에틸� �. (various references)

Pig Latin		ethyleneay

Portuguese		etilbenzeno, hidrocarboneto etilénico (ethylene hydrocarbon). (various references)

Romanian		etilenã. (various references)

Russian		этилен этиленовый. (various references)

Spanish		etileno, carburo etilénico (ethylene hydrocarbon). (various references)

Swedish		etylen (ethene), eten (ethene), olefin (ethylene hydrocarbon), alken (alkene, ethylene hydrocarbon). (various references)

Thai		ก๊าซเอธิลีน ไม่มีสีติ�"ไฟไ�"้. (various references)

Turkish		etilen (ethene). (various references)

Ukranian		етилен. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ethylene

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ethylene": ethylenediaminetetraacetate, ethylenediaminetetraacetates, ethylenes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "ethylene": methylene, perchloroethylene, polyethylene, trichloroethylene. (additional references)
	Words containing "ethylene": hexamethylenetetramine, hexamethylenetetramines, methylenes, perchloroethylenes, polyethylenes, trichloroethylenes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ethylene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atheldene, Athlyne, ehtylene, ethile, Ethlyn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ethylene"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ethylene" (pronounced e"thulē'n)
6	e" th u l ē' n	methylene, polyethylene.
5	-th u l ē' n	naphthalene.
4	-u l ē' n	acetylene, aniline, gasoline, Magdalene, mescaline, opaline, polypropylene, tourmaline.
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Anagrams: Ethylene

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-l-n-t-y"
	-2 letters: ethene, ethyne, eyelet.
	-3 letters: ethyl, lethe, teeny, yente.
	-4 letters: eely, eyen, eyne, heel, hent, hyte, leet, lent, teel, teen, tele, thee, then, they, tyee, tyne.
	-5 letters: eel, eth, eye, hen, het, hey, lee, let, ley, lye, nee, net, nth, tee, tel, ten, the, thy, tye, yeh, yen, yet.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-l-n-t-y"
	+1 letter: entelechy, ethylenes, methylene.
	+2 letters: methylenes, vehemently.
	+4 letters: ethylbenzene, nephelometry, polyethylene.
	+5 letters: ethylbenzenes, openheartedly, polyethylenes.
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