propylene

See also: propylène

English

Chemical Structure of Propylene
The small blue numbers show the numbering of the carbon atoms.

Noun

propylene (countable and uncountable, plural propylenes)

1. (organic chemistry) The organic chemical compound propene. An alkene which is a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C₃H₆.

Synonyms

• IUPAC name: propene

Derived terms

• polypropylene
• propylene glycol
• propylene oxide

Translations

organic compound of the formula C₃H₆

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丙烯 (bing² hei¹)

  Mandarin: 丙烯 (zh) (bǐngxī)

• Dutch: propeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: propileno
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• German: Propylen (de) n
• Greek: προπυλένιο (el) n (propylénio)
• Hungarian: propilén
• Japanese: プロピレン (ja) (puropiren)
• Korean: 프로필렌 (peuropillen)