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
• 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, 15 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, 14 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
• Because of declines in distillates, residual fuel oils, propane, propylene and other oils, the nation's total petroleum stockpiles actually declined by 2.7 million barrels last week, despite the crude and fuel builds.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024