A chemical process or reaction involving ethylene, often used to add ethylene groups to molecules in organic synthesis.
From ethylene + -ation (suffix for processes); named to describe reactions involving ethylene molecules.
Ethylenation is how we make everything from antifreeze to polyethylene plastic—ethylene is literally the most-produced chemical in the world, and nearly all of it gets ethylenated into something more useful.
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