Polyethylene
A thermoplastic polymer of ethylene monomer, ranging from low-density to high-density grades.
Also called Polythene.
How it connects
Polyethylene is a kind of Polyolefin.
Polyethylene includes HDPE and LDPE.
Other kinds of Polyolefin: Olefin and Polypropylene.
In other taxonomies
- polyethyleneEU 1007/2011, polyethylenetheirs is narrower
- polyethyleneISO 1043-1, PEthe same thing
- polyethyleneISO 2076, polyethylenetheirs is narrower
- Polyethylene (PE)Uniclass, Ma_60_65_28nearly the same
- polyethyleneWikidata, Q143429nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
- Also called
- Polythene
- Seen in the wild
- Poly Ethylene
- Broader
- Polyolefin
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); ISO 1043-1:2011+Amd 1:2016, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/polyethyleneKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- broaderHDPEincoming
- broaderLDPEincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderPolyolefinoutgoing
- narrowerHDPEoutgoing
- narrowerLDPEoutgoing
- narrowerPolyolefinincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Polyolefinoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Polymeroutgoing
- descendant (derived)HDPEoutgoing
- descendant (derived)LDPEoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Olefinoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Polypropyleneoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| EU 1007/2011 | polyethylene | polyethylene | theirs is narrower |
| ISO 1043-1 | PE | polyethylene | the same thing |
| ISO 2076 | polyethylene | polyethylene | theirs is narrower |
| Uniclass | Ma_60_65_28 | Polyethylene (PE) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q143429 | polyethylene | nearly the same |