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noun

alkene

any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon

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Six example sentences with alkene, each labelled with its topic.

  • Ethene is the simplest alkene, and its double bond between two carbon atoms makes it eager to react.

    Science

  • Ripening bananas release an alkene gas that will hurry along every avocado sharing the same paper bag.

    Cooking

  • Polymer plants heat crude fractions to crack them into alkene feedstock, the raw material behind most plastic packaging.

    Technology

  • Pine forests release isoprene, a small alkene that reacts in sunlight and adds to the summer haze over the hills.

    Environment

  • Ethylene, the simplest alkene, is traded by the tonne, and its price tracks the cost of the natural gas it is cracked from.

    Economics

  • Chemists first made an alkene in 1795 by dehydrating ethanol, and called it olefiant gas because it formed an oily liquid.

    History

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