How to Use butadiene in a Sentence

butadiene

noun

• The plant, which manufactures butadiene, a chemical used to make synthetic rubber, is a common sight on the Texas Gulf Coast.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2019
• Officials have said the first blast occurred around 1 a.m. Wednesday in an area of the plant that makes butadiene, a chemical used to make synthetic rubber and other products.
  — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
• The plant’s emissions reports show that benzene and butadiene, chemicals linked to cancer, are among its pollutants.
  — Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Firefighters said a rail car at Mallard Creek Polymers transfer site was leaking butadiene which is a chemical that is used as a bonding agent in the production of synthetic rubber.
  — Caroline Hicks and Wbtv, charlotteobserver, 1 Nov. 2017
• The blasts happened near where TPC makes butadiene, a chemical used to make synthetic rubber and other products, company officials have said.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2019
• Packard said the petrochemical plants emit hundreds of tons of toxic, carcinogenic pollutants, including butadiene, acetaldehyde, benzene and formaldehyde.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The pollutants the Baytown refinery released included sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, butadiene and benzene.
  — Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Rubber is also considered plastic, both natural (isoprene) and synthetic (styrene butadiene).
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• About a dozen companies reported to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that the flooding had forced unauthorized emissions of pollutants, including cancer-causing 1,3 butadiene, benzene and ethylene oxide.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• That was followed by a smaller voluntary evacuation order after officials detected elevated levels of butadiene, a chemical used to make synthetic rubber and other products.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019

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