Ethylene oxide (C₂H₄O) is a kind of cyclic ether with important industrial applications;It is widely be used for the manufacture of many important industrial products as well as some chemicals and intermediates. For example, it is very useful in the production of detergents, thickeners, solvents, plastics, and many kinds of organic chemicals such as ethylene glycol, ethanolamines, simple and complex glycols, polyglycol ethers, and other compounds. It is  recorded as  commonly sterilization methods used in the healthcare industry. And it has also been written down as the  methods used  in the taurine production  or certain cellulose production.