olefin

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of a class of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons such as ethylene; an alkene with only one carbon-carbon double bond.

Similar words

alkene olefine metathesis sulfonates ethene monoalkene polyolefin etherol ether alkylene oxide

Often followed by

and polymerization is metathesis to in content polymers with

Word family

olefinic olefins