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What are some common uses for alkenes?

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. Making plastics by polymerisation
. Making ethylene glycol
. Making industrial ethanol and further oxidation to ethanoic acid
. Making Halogenoalkanes important industrial solvents
. Catalytic reforming to form benzene and other aryl compounds

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