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Ethylene

Ethylene (ethylene, H2C=CH2, the IUPAC glossology, ethene)(ethene) A hydrocarbon having carbon two tied up to) by double bond.
It is the simplest alkene.

With colorless gas having a sweet bad smell, it is easy to react with a powerful oxidizer and is flammable again subtly.

I become the polyethylene when I do polymerism by a catalyst.
Reactivity is used as raw materials of various compounds highly.
For example, the acetylene reacts ethylene with Halogen and makes 1,2- the aureole ethane, and I reduce it to its elements with aureole ethene, lithium aluminum hydride in a potassium hydroxide, and it is grown.
I spin-dry ethanol 160 at around 170 degrees Celsius and can get it (dehydration in the molecule).

By the boo car oxidation, I generate acetaldehyde.

As for the volume of production in Japan, 6,882,389t, the industrial consumption are 2,797,858t as an industrial product in 2008 of the ethylene.

I mix a hydrocarbon making naphtha main with steam industrially and understand it for heat at a high temperature of around 800-900 degrees Celsius and I distill a product and separate and produce ethylene.
This plant is called an ethylene plant, and it is the core facilities of the petrochemistry factory.