propylene

See also: propylène

English

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

Etymology

Coined by John Williams Reynolds in 1851, from French propionique + -ylene

Noun

propylene (countable and uncountable, plural propylenes)

(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

Translations

organic compound of the formula C₃H₆

Catalan: propilè m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 丙烯 (bing² hei¹)

Mandarin: 丙烯 (zh) (bǐngxī)
Dutch: propeen (nl) n
Esperanto: propileno
German: Propylen (de) n
Greek: προπυλένιο (el) n (propylénio)
Hungarian: propilén (hu)
Japanese: プロピレン (ja) (puropiren)
Kazakh: пропилен (propilen)
Korean: 프로필렌 (peuropillen)
Kyrgyz: пропилен (propilen)

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