Usually means: Simplest alkene, double-bonded carbons.
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  1. ethene: Merriam-Webster
  2. ethene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ethene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ethene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ethene: Vocabulary.com
  6. ethene: Wordnik
  7. ethene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ethene: Wiktionary
  9. ethene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ethene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ethene: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ethene: Dictionary.com
  13. Ethene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ethene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ethene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ethene: Rhymezone
  17. Ethene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ethene: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. ethene: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ethene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ethene: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ethene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ethene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. ethene: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

(Note: See ethenes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (organic chemistry, IUPAC name) The organic chemical compound ethylene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula Câ‚‚Hâ‚„
noun:  (organic chemistry) Any alkene derived from ethylene

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