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)

1. (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

• polypropylene
• propylene glycol
• propylene oxide

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)