ethyleneoxides

Noun

ethyleneoxide (plural ethyleneoxides)

1. A colorless gas (at room temperature), C₂H₄O, used as a chemical intermediate and in the sterilization of medical equipment and supplies.
   • It is found that the clouding process is closely related to the conformational equilibrium of the ethyleneoxide chains, and that this equilibrium depends on the properties of the free ethyleneoxide chain, the solvation of the chain, but also to a large extent on the effect that the ethyleneoxide...2000, Gunnar Karlström, “On the origin of the solution behavior of ethyleneoxide containing polymers”, in P. Alexandridis, B. Lindman, editor, Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Self-Assembly and...