How to use in-sentence of “ethylene”:
+ Similarly, the Wacker process is used in the oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde.
+ This is then changed to ethylene glycol, which is used to make many products such as antifreeze and polyester.
+ A reaction of Grignards with oxygen in presence of an alkene makes an ethylene extended alcohol.
+ Because of this system, ethylene became ethene.
+ Founded in 1917 as the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, from a merger with National Carbon Company, the company’s researchers developed an economical way to make ethylene from natural gas liquids, such as ethane and propane, giving birth to the modern petrochemical industry.
+ Its monomer can be synthesized by the esterification reaction between terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol with water as a byproduct or the transesterification reaction between ethylene glycol and dimethyl terephthalate with methanol as a byproduct.
+ Ethanol works as an antidote for ethylene glycol and methanol by sticking to those poisons.
+ Since making ethylene uses a lot of energy, the people making the ethylene try very hard to keep the heat from the gasses from leaving the furnaces.
