ethylene oxide (CAS No. 75-21-8)   Fact Sheet *

 

formula for this?        

 

C2H4O

says an advance chemical analyst

 

Ethylene is a reactive hydrocarbon because it has a double bond. Formula C2H4

 

I.e. between the two carbons.

 

HC=CH

 

It is sausage shaped.

 

This can join to another substance including two more hydrogen atoms

 

i.e. get C2H6 

 

H2C-CH2

 

If it joins to oxygen, then the oxygen joins or attaches to both carbon atoms to form a triangular molecule.

 

    O

HC-CH

 

Cant show single arm from O atom to each C atom but you can imagine a triangle.

 

This molecule is very reactive now as this bonding is very strained.

 

Used as a building block for many other compounds.

 

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