How to Use propylene in a Sentence

propylene

noun

• The scrapers are made from durable propylene that will remain useful for life.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 10 June 2021
• The juices are a mix of 40 percent propylene glycol and 60 percent vegetable glycerin.
  — Caitlin Kelly, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• The pipes are filled with a mixture of water and propylene glycol, which captures the relative warmth of the surrounding earth.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2017
• Supplies of propane, propylene, residual fuel oil and other oils all dipped as well.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
• People exposed to propylene can become dizzy and light-headed, and the gas can also cause liver damage.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2020
• And Cummings said a car carrying propylene was punctured and released some vapor.
  — Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
• People exposed to propylene can become dizzy and lightheaded, and the gas can also cause liver damage.
  — Juan A. Lozano, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• And there’s growing demand for ethylene (used in antifreeze, plastics, and solvents) and propylene.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena said hazardous materials crews have secured the valve on a 2,000-gallon tank of propylene that had been leaking.
  — Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
• The molecule, propylene oxide, was found floating in a cloud of dust and gas known as Sagittarius B2 and is one of the most structurally intricate chemicals found in space to date.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2016
• Authorities have said the chemical involved was propylene, which is used for the production of films, fibers and plastic packaging.
  — Perla Trevizo, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2020
• Factories in China that turn propane into propylene—first stop on its way to becoming takeout containers—were too complex to shut down.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• The database will shed light on 68% of CO2 emissions for ethylene, propylene, styrene and more, helping overcome the reporting challenges facing the chemical sector.
  — Jeremy Pafford, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Vector has received a patent for its liquid oxygen-propylene rocket engine, three of which will power its orbital Vector-R rocket, Ars reports.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
• But overall, the nation's total petroleum stocks still managed to dip by 5.5 million barrels overall though thanks to declines in other oils, propane and propylene supplies.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
• Law enforcement officials have said an electrical spark likely ignited a propylene gas leak that led to the explosion.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• With propylene’s optimal density and performance values, the Vector-R can keep its first stage diameter to just over a meter in size, with smaller fuel tanks.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2018
• In this discovery, reported by Caltech researchers in June, radio telescopes picked up faint traces of the organic compound propylene oxide in a vast cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2, which is near the center of our galaxy.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2016
• In this discovery, reported by Caltech researchers in June, radio telescopes picked up faint traces of the organic compound propylene oxide in a vast cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2, which is near the center of our galaxy.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
• The resulting ethylene gas is separated from co-products such as propylene, and then piped to other production units for conversion to a vast array of products.
  — Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Stockpiles of distillates, which include diesel and heating fuels, and propane/propylene fell sharply, more than offsetting the increases in crude and gasoline inventories.
  — Houston Chronicle, 14 Nov. 2019
• The complex’s chemical plant has shut, including its olefins unit -- which takes feedstocks such as naphtha, butane, propane and ethane from the oil refinery and converts them into ethylene and propylene that are used to make plastics.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
• The existing Flint Hills plant produces common building blocks of plastic, ethylene and propylene as well as the chemical cyclohexane.
  — Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2019
• Those declines were partially offset by increases in stockpiles of other petroleum products, such as propane and propylene.
  — Fuelfix Staff, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
• It was most recently used to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, distillates, petroleum coke, propane, heavy fuel oil and refinery-grade propylene.
  — J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• The plant will have the biggest production capacity in the world for these chemicals, capable of manufacturing 1 billion pounds of propylene oxide and 2.2 billion pounds of tertiary butyl alcohol a year.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• Another similar incident took place in the facility later that year in August when a propylene recovery unit caught fire, leading to a drop in production, according to Reuters.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Glycidol is an irritant that's a potential carcinogen, as is propylene oxide.
  — Samantha Cole, Popular Science, 27 July 2016
• Both forms of cigarette use caused the presence of much higher levels of dangerous chemicals in the users’ bodies, including acrylonitrile, acrolein, propylene oxide, acrylamide and crotonaldehyde, the team reported.
  — Benjamin Fearnow, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2018
• Never used before in a larger engine, propylene has useful properties of higher density and specific impulse that will give Vector's small rocket more performance.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024