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1,3-Butadiene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1,3-Butadiene is a simple conjugated diene. It is an important industrial chemical used as a monomer in the production of synthetic rubber. When the word butadiene is used, most of ...
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butadiene (by t'ədī`ēn), colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon. There are two structural isomers of butadiene; they differ in the location of the two carbon-carbon double bonds in the ...
1,3-Butadiene
1,3-Butadiene is a gas and like benzene is another hydrocarbon. All of the UK's, 1,3-Butadiene is produced from human activities, the majority coming from motor vehicle emissions.

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Butadiene, synthetic chemical compound, used principally in the manufacture of synthetic rubber, nylon, and latex paints.

Most commercial butadiene is made by dehydrogenation of butene, formula C₄H₈, or of mixtures of butene and butane; it may also be made from ethanol. Because butadiene has high reactivity, it is useful in synthesis, particularly in polymerization reactions. A large percentage of car tyres are made from Buna rubber, a copolymer of butadiene and phenylethene (styrene).

Butadiene is a colourless, gaseous hydrocarbon with the formula C₄H₆. It is liquefied by cooling to -4.4° C (24.1° F) or by compression to 2.8 atmospheres at 25° C (77° F).