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.
Alkanes are unreactive and are mainly used as fuels. Alkenes are much more reactive than alkanes because alkenes are unsaturated (they have a reactive double bond). Alkenes are the starting material for many different chemicals.They are extremely useful to the chemical industry.Ethene and propene are the starting materials for polymers, giving poly(ethene) and poly(propene) - see polymers.n alkene may be distinguished from an alkane by shaking the hydrocarbon with bromine water. Bromine water is brown or orange, and will lose its colour when it reacts with the double bond of an alkene. Bromine water will stay brown with an alkane because an alkane has no double bonds.