Crossword-Solution: ETHYLENE
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| Ethylene | n. | A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “ETHYLENE”
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| ____ glycol (antifreeze) | 1 answer |
| OLEFIN series of hydrocarbons, first member of | 1 answer |
| Gas used to speed up the fruit ripening process | 1 answer |
| GAS with a faint sweet smell | 1 answer |
| Colorless, flammable gas used as an anesthetic | 1 answer |
| C2H4 | 2 answers |
| Colorless, flammable gas | 3 answers |
| Colorant | 7 answers |
| Flammable gas | 7 answers |
| Anesthetic gas | 10 answers |
| A FLAMMABLE COLORLESS GASEOUS ALKENE | 10 answers |
| A COLORLESS POISONOUS GAS | 10 answers |
| A COLORLESS AND ODORLESS INERT GAS | 10 answers |
| A COLORLESS FLAMMABLE GAS USED AS A LOCAL SURFACE ANESTHETIC | 10 answers |
| CITRUS COLORANT | 10 answers |
| A NONMETALLIC UNIVALENT ELEMENT THAT IS NORMALLY A COLORLESS AND ODORLESS HIGHLY FLAMMABLE DIATOMIC GAS | 11 answers |
| Antifreeze. | 11 answers |
| anesthetic | 21 answers |
| Gas | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ETHYLENE (5)
But there are also produced, in some cases by secondary changes, ethylene, methane, naphthalene, styrolene, anthracene, and homologues of several of these hydrocarbons, while carbon and hydrogen are separated.
Acetylene combines with hydrogen in the presence of platinum black, and ethylene and then ethane result.
Ethane and ethylene are undoubtedly formed, and certain homologues of them and of acetylene, as well as benzene and a high molecular hydrocarbon (C_7H_6)_n termed "cuprene," have been found by different investigators.
See _Latent heat_ loss of, from flames, of chemical reactions, of combustion of acetylene, carbon, carbon monoxide, ethylene, of formation of acetylene, calcium carbide, hydroxide, oxide, carbon dioxide, monoxide, ethylene, water, of hydration of calcium oxide, of reaction between carbide and calcium hydroxide, between carbide and water, of solution of calcium hydroxide, of vaporisation of carbon, water, radiant, specific.
The hydrocarbons insoluble in sulphuric acid are, apparently, all members of the C_nH_{2n} series; they are not, however, true homologues of ethylene, but hexhydrides of hydrocarbons of the benzene series.
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Used 5 times in crossword archives (1995–2008).