/oss/taxonomy/term/3804/all en /oss/article/did-you-know/i-keep-hearing-isobutylene-newswhat-heck-it <p>An explosion and fire at a <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/One-dead-two-injured-in-Crosby-plant-explosion-13736724.php#photo-17164118">Texas chemical plant</a> fuelled by the extremely flammable gas isobutylene has killed one employee and left the public wondering why such a dangerously flammable gas is produced in such large quantities.</p> <p>Isobutylene (also called 2-methylpropene, isobutene, and γ-butylene because chemists aren’t wonderful at sticking to a one naming system) is a colourless, gaseous hydrocarbon at room temperature.</p> Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:43:01 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 7694 at /oss