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.
Importance of ethylene and. propylene in the chemical industry. 4. Lower olefins: ethylene and propylene. The largest volume petrochemicals produced. Global production in 2015 is about 143 million. tons ethylene and 95 million tons propylene. Annual increase of some 4 - 5 %. Ethylene and propylene have no end use, they. are building blocks for a large variety of. chemicals and petrochemical products.