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Ethylene

Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene)

Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon with the formula C2H4 or H2C=CH2. It is a colorless flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odor when pure. It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon-carbon double bonds), and the simplest unsaturated hydrocarbon after acetylene (C2H2). (Wikipedia)

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Hydrocarbons
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Ethene

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18-Oct-2012

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