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Ethylene
Ethylene
(
IUPAC
name:
ethene
) is a
hydrocarbon
which has the formula or H
2
C=CH
2
. It is a colorless flammable gas with a faint "sweet and
musky
" odor when pure. It is the simplest
alkene
(a hydrocarbon with
carbon-carbon
double bonds
), and the second simplest
unsaturated hydrocarbon
after
acetylene
.
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