Which risk increases when ethylene gas is exposed to oxidizing agents?

💡 Explanation

Ethylene oxidation can lead to explosive polymerization because the free-radical chain mechanism readily propagates when double bonds break, therefore rapid uncontrolled chain growth initiates, rather than controlled oxidation, at specific sites preserving the double bond.

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