Ethene | Word Ethene at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

But Dutch researcher Tymen Tiemersma thinks he has a solution: a reactor that can produce ethene from natural gas.
Peak oil signifies disaster for plastics producers — ethene, one of the raw materials used to make plastics, relies on abundant supplies of oil for production.
Yet natural gas is not only used for the production of ethene.
Is it possible to bond the ethene radical (ethenyl?) with an aldehyde group?

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