propylene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

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propylene propylenes

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

propene

dipropylene melarsoprol monopropylene glycol polypropylene propylene glycol propylene oxide propylenic

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