Ethylene diamine

( Chem.) See DIAMINE. Etienne, St., ( ai'te -en,) an important manufacturing town of France, cap. of dep. Loire, 32 m. SS. W. of Lyons, and about 288 m. S.S.E. of Paris, on the Turens, an affluent of the Loire, in the centre of a valuable and extensive coal-field. It is surrounded by coal-mines, is seated upon coal-deposits, and has galleries driven even beneath its streets. The stream on which the town is built furnishes invaluable water-power to move its machinery, and its waters are also of great use for tempering iron and steel. The most noteworthy building is the Hôtel-de-Ville, which contains the Musée In dust riel, with specimens of the manufactures of the town, and of the minerals and fo ils of the neighborhood. St. E. is famous for its manufactures of ribbons and fire-arms. The ribbon-manufactories contain 30,000 looms, and the annual value of their produce is estimated at 60,000,000 francs ($12,500,000) in value. They are unrivalled in elegance of design, and in richne and delicacy of color, and are exported to all parts of the world. There are extensive private manufactories of fire-arms, besides an imperial fire-arms manufactory, which supplies most of the muskets of the French army. St. E. has also extensive manufactures of bayonets, scythes, nails, sawblades, foils, anvils, vices, files, and also of silks, velvets, lace, embroidery, muslins, gla , leather, and paper. From the coal-fields on which St. E. is situated, about 600,000 tons are raised annually. Pop. 121,744.