ethylene

See also: éthylène

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der.

Proto-Hellenic *áitʰō

Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)

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Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)influ.?

Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr)der.

Latin aethērbor.

German Äther

German Ether

Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?

Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.

German -yl

German Ethylbor.

English ethyl

English eth-

English -ylene

English ethylene

From eth- + -ylene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛθɪˌliːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (weak vowel merger) 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.
   • 2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science‎^[1], volume 6, →DOI:

     SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.

   • 2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv‎^[2]:

     As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..

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

Chemical Structure of Ethylene

Synonyms

• (IUPAC name): ethene
• olefiant gas (obsolete)

Derived terms

• bromotrifluoroethylene
• chloroethylene
• chlorotrifluoroethylene
• cocaethylene
• dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
• diethylene
• diphenylethylene
• ethylenediamine
• ethylenediaminetetraacetate
• ethylenediaminetetraacetic
• ethylene glycol
• ethyleneimine
• ethylene interpolymer
• ethylene oxide
• ethylene-vinyl acetate
• ethylenic
• etorphine
• fluoroethylene
• haloethylene
• hexylene
• iodoethylene
• isopropylethylene
• melene
• methene
• monoethylene
• monoethylene glycol
• nitroethylene
• nonethylene
• nonylene
• oligoethylene
• oxyethylene
• pentaethylenehexamine
• perchloroethylene
• polyethylene
• polyethylene terephthalate
• polyoxyethylene
• quartene
• tetraacetylethylenediamine
• tetrabromoethylene
• tetrachloroethylene
• tetrafluoroethylene
• tetrylene
• triethylene
• triphenylethylene

Translations

compound

• Bashkir: этилен (etilen)
• Catalan: etilè m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乙烯 (zh) (yǐxī)

• Czech: etylen (cs) m
• Danish: ætylen c or n
• 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 (dakṣulenya)
• Hungarian: etilén (hu)
• Irish: eitéin f, eitiléin f
• Italian: etilene (it) m
• Japanese: エチレン (ja) (echiren), エテン (ja) (eten)
• Kazakh: этилен (étilen), этен (éten)
• Korean: 에틸렌 (etillen)
• Kyrgyz: этилен (etilen), этен (eten)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etylen n

  Nynorsk: etylen m or n

• Polish: eten (pl) m, etylen (pl) m
• Portuguese: etileno (pt) m
• Romanian: etilenă (ro) f
• Russian: этиле́н (ru) m (etilén)
• Spanish: etileno m
• Swedish: eten (sv); etylen (sv) (common name)
• Turkish: etilen (tr)
• Ukrainian: ете́н m (etén), етиле́н m (etylén)

radical

• French: éthylène (fr) m
• Italian: etilene (it) m
• Japanese: エチレン基 (エチレンき, echiren-ki)
• Polish: eten (pl) m, etylen (pl) m
• Ukrainian: етиле́н m (etylén)