Actress Natasha Richardson Dies After Head Injury While Skiing. Natasha Richardson, the Tony Award-winning British actress, died Wednesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan where she had been transported from SacrÃ© Coeur Hospital in Montreal. Richardson received head trauma in a fall in a beginners' area known as the flats at Mont Tremblant, Canada Monday.
Alkenes: Industrial Importance. Alkenes find many diverse applications in industry. They are used as starting materials in the syntheses of alcohols, plastics, laquers, detergents, and fuels.The most important alkenes for the chemical industry are ethene, propene and 1,3-butadiene.Ethene is the most important organic feedstock in the chemical industry.lkenes: Industrial Importance. Alkenes find many diverse applications in industry. They are used as starting materials in the syntheses of alcohols, plastics, laquers, detergents, and fuels.
Alkenes also react with halogens (X2) to form haloalkanes with two neighboring halogen atoms in a halogen addition reaction. This is sometimes known as decolorizing the halogen, since the reagent X2 is colored and the product is usually colorless.lkenes are used for artificial ripening of fruits, as a general anesthetic, for making poisonous mustard gas (War gas) and ethylene-oxygen flame. 1. Making plastics by poly â¦ merisation 2.