Ethylene Overview Ethylene (ETH-ih-leen) is a colorless, flammable gas with a sweet odor and taste. It is the simplest alkene. Alkenes are hydrocarbons that contain one or more double bonds. Ethylene was first prepared in 1794 by a group of Dutch...

Ethylene (C2H 4), also known as ethene, is a colorless, flammable gas and is an important hydrocarbon in chemical processes. Just about every home and business in the modern world contains products made with ethylene. This organic gas is the starting...

Ethene or ethylene is the simplest member of the alkene group. It has a chemical formula of CH2CH2, with a double bond between the two carbon atoms. Ethene is a colorless gas that can be collected from natural gas and crude oil. It is the most commonly...

A colorless gas of the olefin series. Not toxic to humans or animals but is the only gas found to have adverse effects on plants at ambient concentrations of 1 ppm or less. It is the largest volume organic chemical produced...

Ethylene (or IUPAC name ethene) is the chemical compound with the formula C2H4. It is the simplest alkene. Because it contains a double bond, ethylene is called an unsaturated hydrocarbon or an olefin. It is extremely important in industry and even has...

A woman suspected of killing two husbands was charged with attempted murder Thursday after authorities said she poisoned her daughter and tried to cast suspicion on the younger woman for the two men's deaths.Stacey Castor, 40, gave her 20-year-old daughter a tainted drink the night...

A woman suspected of killing two husbands was charged with attempted murder Thursday after authorities said she poisoned her daughter and tried to cast suspicion on the younger woman for the two men's deaths.Stacey Castor, 40, gave her 20-year-old daughter a tainted drink the night...

A former 911 operator was convicted Saturday of murdering her boyfriend by poisoning him with antifreeze.Lynn Turner could face a death sentence in the 2001 killing of Randy Thompson, a Forsyth County firefighter and the father of her two children. The same jury that convicted...

Jurors Tuesday spared the life of a former 911 dispatcher convicted of poisoning her boyfriend with antifreeze _ the same way she had killed her husband six years earlier.Lynn Turner could have faced the death penalty for the 2001 murder of Randy Thompson, a Forsyth...